LOUTRO - 2008

Loutro. P. Mortensen (Copenhagen) presents a brief account of lithics collected at ca. 150−220masl on the surface of redeposited sediments. Twenty one individual bifacially and unifacially modified cobbles and flakes of coarse white to reddish-brown chert and limestone are described. Consideration is given to the possibility that these are naturally produced ‘geofacts’, but the pattern of flaking, presence of bulbs of percussion and probable prepared platform on one example, are argued to demonstrate that they are artefacts. The forms represented include choppers, flakes, picks, points, scrapers and a hand-axe. Typologically, the artefacts can be compared with L Lower Pal and E MPal assemblages from N Africa and S Europe.