Mobility and the Importance of Bone and Bulb Retouchers in the Middle Palaeolithic of the Swabian Jura
Journal: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte
Year: 2024

Modifying the form of lithic artifacts through retouch represents a central technological feature of the Middle Palaeolithic, and retouchers made of a variety of materials appear frequently in the archaeological record. Bone and bulb retouchers are the most common types. The first, are often described as ad hoc tools with short use-lives, while researchers have tentatively iden-tified the second as curated artifacts included in the mobile toolkit. Here we present two bulb retouchers from the Mid