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Thumbnail scraper, made of obsidian. It was collected by palaeoanthroplogist Louis Leakey at a site called 'Long's Drift' at Lake Elmenteita in Kenya, and is Mesolithic in age. This type of implement is called a 'thumbnail scraper' because of its shape.
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