Montgri pick

MAC GIR-107324

Object type pick

Culture/period Prehistory

Materials porphyry

Technique carving

Mint

Production date -300000 / -120000

Seu Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona

Current location MASPG

Archaeological site Cau del Duc

Township Torroella de Montgrí (Baix Empordà)

Dimensions 198 x 95 x 78 mm

Description

Trihedral pick, also known as a Montgrí pick: a pebble stone partially knapped unifacially to make a convergent distal end. It is formed on a river pebble with triangular, oval or square cross-section. It has a sharp non-centripetal point with bilateral deep or very deep extractions, uniangular with convex, straight or curved shape and bilateral symmetry. Montgrí picks are Palaeolithic stone tools identified for the first time at the site of the Tomb of the Duke of Torroella (Torroella, Baix Emporda, Girona), located on the southern slopes of Mount Saint Catherine, under Montgrí Castle. The cave was discovered and excavated first by Pericot and Pallarès, and this object was first published by Pericot and Pallarès in 1923. At the time of publication it was confused with an Asturian pick of Epipalaeolithic age, from the late Upper Paleolithic-Holocene about 10,000 years ago. Its real chronology is Middle Pleistocene, most likely about 300,000 years old.

Omeka ID 227