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1941.5.1.12

Drawing of tool

1941.5.1.12

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Collection type
Object
Description
Drawing of tool
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Lower Palaeolithic Abbevillian
Date collected
By 1941
Acquisition information
Donated: 1941
Materials and processes
Material Cardboard Paper Plant, Process Drawn
Dimensions
Length x Width: max 62 x 37 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1941.5.1.12
Research and responses

Abbevillian industry is a prehistoric stone-tool tradition generally considered to represent the oldest occurrence in Europe of a bifacial (hand-ax) technology. The Abbevillian industry dates from an imprecisely determined part of the Middle Pleistocene, somewhat less than 700,000 years ago. It was recovered from high terrace sediments of the lower Somme valley, in a suburb of Abbeville, France. [Encyclopædia Britannica Online] [CF 17/5/2000]

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