Endscraper (NHMW-PRAE-44.393)

3D Model

3D scan of a 70 mm long endscraper on a blade made from brown-red radiolarite. Scrapers show one or two retouched concave working edges at an acute angle. They were used to skin animals, clean meat off hides or on wood. This endscraper 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: Endscraper

Inventory number: NHMW-PRAE-44.393

Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, Prehistory Department, Stone Age Coll. (curator: Caroline Posch)

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

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