“…A lithic piece can get fractured during production or use, or due to post-depositional processes (Hiscock, 2002). The mechanical particularities of NQ (Jones, 1994;Santonja et al, 2014;Bello-Alonso et al, submitted) often contribute to breaking during the knapping process, particularly during the final stages of handaxe production (Herzlinger et al, 2015). On the other hand, consumption of lithic tools has been verified in TKSF, and under that activity fractures occasionally occurred (e.g.…”