The burins are very effective cutting tools. These are made from a flint blade, by means of lateral hits to obtain a bevel edge with which incise to engrave and cut. During the Upper Palaeolithic the burins are associated to the extraction of deer antler rods with which to make projectile points or harpoons and, to the engraving of bones and the rock art.
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