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What is a biface?

What is a biface? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaeology) A double-sided stone tool
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Multiple regression of biface count on population and site count is questionable because of sample size and the rather wide dispersion of cases evident in crossplots.
This Solutrean biface was found during excavation in the early 1900's in a rock shelter called Le Ruth.
One twelve-year-old was buried with a range of grave goods including a stone biface, bone awls, a shark's tooth, and barbed bone points.
For example the Stone Age hand-axe, the Acheulean biface, used by our ancestors 500,000 years ago, had been in use unchanged for more than a million years.
The second yielded a single Middle to Late Woodland Greenville hafted biface, and the third yielded no artifacts.
If rather more equivocally, population Class 4 and biface Classes 2 and 3 show similar patterns.

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