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Acheulean Hand Axe
3 December 2006, 11:00 PST
Los AngelesSold for US$956 inc. premium
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Lower Paleolithic - 220,000 - 240,000 years old
Arabian Peninsula
Acheulean tools are named for the French site at which this type of tool was first discovered. Originally thought to represent only the work of the early Homo erectus, it is now known that tools as simple as the present hand axe were most likely also used later by Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon.
This Acheulean hand axe, numbered F14, from a 1971 Peabody Museum study conducted by Dr. Augustus Sordinas, has been defined on page 20 of the study entitled, “Contributions to the Anthropology of Saudi Arabia,” 1971, by Henry Field. The present implement is also pictured on page 21 of the publication, Man,” January 1961, by the Royal Anthropological Institute of London, by Henry Field. Length 6in
Arabian Peninsula
Acheulean tools are named for the French site at which this type of tool was first discovered. Originally thought to represent only the work of the early Homo erectus, it is now known that tools as simple as the present hand axe were most likely also used later by Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon.
This Acheulean hand axe, numbered F14, from a 1971 Peabody Museum study conducted by Dr. Augustus Sordinas, has been defined on page 20 of the study entitled, “Contributions to the Anthropology of Saudi Arabia,” 1971, by Henry Field. The present implement is also pictured on page 21 of the publication, Man,” January 1961, by the Royal Anthropological Institute of London, by Henry Field. Length 6in
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