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Within lithic reduction, a burin occurs as favorite nature and severity of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which will stand been utilized for engraving or carving wood or bone. Burins exhibit the feature known as the burin spawl, where a little flake is stricken obliquely from either a edge of the burin flake sequentially to form the graving edge. Burin usage is symptomatic of Upper Palaeolithic cultures in Europe, but has too been identified within North American cultural assemblages. Within modern usage, the burin is too the steel cutting tool utilized by engravers.
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