Scrapers are typically formed by chipping the end of a flake of stone in order to create one sharp side and to keep the rest of the sides dull to facilitate grasping it. Most scrapers are either circle or blade-like in shape.

Type: End Scraper. Location: Stanly County, North Carolina. Age: Middle Holocene. Material: Metasedimentary. MoST ID: 1821. Pedestal Link: https://une.pedestal3d.com/r/BILRXakvy3. Model Author: Chris LaMack

This chert end scraper is from Abri Casserole in France, and dates to the Solutrean phase of the Upper Palaeolithic period, ca. 17,000-22,000 BP. The artefact in this model is described as an ‘end scraper’ because the distal end of the blade was unifacially retouched to form a curved edge.

Sep 29, 2019 · Scrapers: A scraper is a chipped stone artifact that has been purposefully shaped with one or more longitudinal sharp edges. Scrapers come in any number of shapes and sizes, and may be carefully shaped and prepared, or simply a pebble with a sharp edge.

Mar 9, 2018 · A Mesolithic flake, with platform, prominent platform, and bulb of percussion, retouched on both long edges and the distal end as a combined side and end scraper. 71mm x 46mm Found in West Sussex. Age around 8,000 years.

Pressure-flaked at the distal end of a blade to produce the characteristic steep scraper at the end, with small use-wear flakes along both edges. These flakes are patinated consistent with the rest of the surface, and distinct from two later (but still probably prehistoric in age) small flakes.

Type: Inuit End Scraper. Location: Alaska. Age: Recent. Material: Slate. MoST ID: 1840. Pedestal Link: https://une.pedestal3d.com/r/DFUhioprtv. Model Author: Anthromuseum

End scrapers date to the Upper Paleolithic period and may date to sometime between 35 and 40 thousand years ago. " (An end scraper is a) Narrow blade tool with a convex working edge at one or both ends." -----1973, Francois Bordes, "The Old Stone Age," p. 243.

The end scraper was made on a Levallois flake. This artifact was discovered in the Paris basin region of France. It dates from the Upper Paleolithic, the Aurignacian industry, about 40,000 to 27,000 B.C.

For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides, wood, or bones.