"countershock" meaning in English

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          "text": "This kind of break by countershock in the haft occurs on Paleoindian bifacial point and has been reproduced experimentally on replicas of Paleoindian and Solutrean shouldered points [63 ].",
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        "A shock that travels in the opposite direction to an applied impulse.",
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        "A shock that travels in the opposite direction to an applied impulse.",
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