Burin (NHMW-PRAE-44.484)

3D Model

3D scan of a 55 mm long burin made from brown-red radiolarite. Tools of this kind are especially common and appear in great variety in Central Europe during the Upper Paleolithic. They were used to work hard materials, such as dry wood or bone, antler, or stone. The burin originated from layer 9 of the Willendorf II site in the Wachau Region in Lower Austria. It constitutes one of the numerous artefacts found in the same site as the Venus of Willendorf.

This object was digitized for the go!digital 3.0 project bITEM (Beyond the Item - Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects in Museums and beyond).

Object: Burin

Inventory number: NHMW-PRAE-44.484

Collection: NHMW, Prehistory Department, Stone Age Coll. (curator: Caroline Posch)

Find out more about the NHM Vienna here.

Scanned and edited by V. Winkler and N. Brodtmann (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.