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Rethinking the lithic blade definition: towards a dynamic understanding
A study of the blade concepts in the Early Mesolithic (Maglemosian, ca.
9000–6000 BC) in Scandinavia and Northern Germany (Sørensen in press
amined the lithic chaînes opératoires, and especially the step involving blade
production, on six Maglemosian sites and 17 additional sites, it became ap
production through the entire period. However only during the late Maglem
osian (phase 3,4,5) (Petersen 1973) the serially produced removals made for
tools and microliths has a morphology that can “allow” the term “blades”
describe the Maglemosian as a period where “blades” were produced only
Figure 3. Blade production by means of direct hard percussion using a quartzite stone
hammer. The core is held on the ground and struck at an angle of approximately 70 degrees.
The blades are large, irregular and characterized by a distinct set of attributes:
large bulbs, impact cones on the butt. A study of the prehistoric blade production
and a comparison of the blades and their attributes to original and recently produced
blades concluded that the direct hard hammer technique was used during the earliest
Early Maglemosian Period in Southern Scandinavia. The production of big irregular
blades was, during the Early Maglemosian and the Ertebølle Period, used to make pre-
concept) reveals a true blade concept. Photo J. Sørensen.
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