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Description: | Hand axe
Late Palaeolithic 500,000-200,000
Length 71mm, width 42mm, thickness 19mm
Acheulian hand axe. Flaking scars on both the ventral and dorsal sides around the edge, the tool is triangular in plan with an off centre point at the base. The flaking scars are large a crude and the edges have been worn smooth.
The surface patina is light brown with off white mottling and small dark brown speckles throughout.
It is thought that Homo erectus was the first hominid to use such technology (bifacial hand axes), though this industry is much more readily associated with our ancestors Homo sapiens and particularly with Neanderthals as well. The Acheulean era began about 1.5 million years ago but did not reach this country until about 500,000 years ago and ended about 100,000 years ago. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -500000
-200000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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