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ID: 300400616
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300400616

 

Record Type: concept
backed blades (cutting tools, cutting equipment, ... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Terminology used by prehistorians for a class of microlithic blades with one edge blunted by a secondary retouch. It is assumed that this was so that they could be held more easily. Backed blades first appeared in the early Upper Paleolithic.
 
Terms:
backed blades (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
backed blade (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)
blades, backed (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
klingen met rug (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)
kling met rug (C,U,Dutch,AD,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.TH

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
.... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
........ Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of equipment
............ equipment (G)
Hierarchy of <equipment by process>
................ <equipment by process> (G)
Hierarchy of cutting equipment
.................... cutting equipment (G)
Hierarchy of cutting tools
........................ cutting tools (G)
Hierarchy of backed blades
............................ backed blades (P,U)

Additional Notes:
Dutch ..... Kling waarvan één kant stomp is gemaakt door het verwijderen van kleine schilfers, zodat het makkelijker vast te houden was. 

Sources and Contributors:
backed blade............  [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
.......................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
backed blades............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred, VP]
..........................  Darvill, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2008)
..........................  Kobayashi, The Study of Accidental Breakage on Backed Blades, Lithic Technology (1985) 16
..........................  Rosen, Lithics after the Stone Age (1997) 60
..........................  Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (1999) 100
blades, backed............  [VP]
.............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
klingen met rug............  [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.............................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
.............................  PACTOLS thesaurus
.............................  Prisma Archeologie (1996)
kling met rug............  [RKD, AAT-Ned]
..........................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
..........................  PACTOLS thesaurus
..........................  Prisma Archeologie (1996)
 
Subject: .....  [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
.......... Darvill, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2008)
.......... Rosen, Lithics after the Stone Age (1997)
.......... Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (1999) 100
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)
.......... PACTOLS thesaurus
.......... Prisma Archeologie (1996)

 

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