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What does bifacial mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word bifacial? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having two faces or opposing surfaces.
  2. (archaeology, of a flint tool) Having two sharp cutting edges.
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It possessed secondary xylem and secondary phloem, which were produced by a bifacial vascular cambium with ray and fusiform initials.
What he did find at the workshops were hammer stones, blocked-out bifaces, thinned bifacial blanks, and bladelet cores and bladelets.
Formed artifacts are a broadly defined category including items ranging from tested raw material to formal bifacial implements.
These pre-Clovis projectile points were also bifacial but not as large and well turned as the later technology.
Secondary manoxylic wood is produced by a bifacial vascular cambium and surrounds each vascular strand.
This small-tool tradition excludes the better-known large bifacial tools of this period and all core tools.

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