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1935.27.4

Ground stone axe.

1935.27.4

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ground stone axe.
Long description
Ground axe 'subquadrangular edge rounded but skew smooth pale grey veined stone faces almost flat ground from one side...with rounded top expanding to a curved edge'. [ZM 24/3/2004]
Geographical reference
India
Asia > Southern Asia > India
Arunachal Pradesh Noa Dihing River Ningru Village
Person
Field collector John Henry Crace
PRM source John Henry Crace
PRM source John Henry Hutton
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1935
Date collected
By 1935
Acquisition information
Donated: 1935
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Material Bone, Process Ground
Dimensions
Width: max 45 mm, Length: max 66 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1935.27.4
Research and responses

See researchers file 'Milliken' for draft of A brief history of the stone tool collections from India in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford by Sarah Milliken from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. [ZM 22/08/2008]

Associated publications
This is one of the stone tools described by A.A. Ashraf on page 5 of Prehistoric Arunachal as follows: 'There is an important collection of Stone tools from Arunachal Pradesh which have been preserved in the Pitt River [sic] Museum, Oxford. These were collected by J.P. Mills and J.H. Grace [sic note this should be Crace] during 1933-35. The first scientific report of this collection was made by A.H. Dani in 1960. In 1966, T.C. Sharma also studied the collection and pointed out that 10 specimens out of 16 are made on varieties of locally available rocks such as, sand stone, basalt, gneiss, schist and talcose. The rest of the implements are made on jadeite which is not locally available and thus these implements, according to him, reached Arunachal Pradesh either from north Burma or China.' [Itanagar, 1990] [ZM 21/11/2011] Illustrated (black and white drawing) as figure 22 on plate 8 in Prehistory and Protohistory of Eastern India by A.H. Dani (India: Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1960). Classified by Dani (page 60) as 'Curvilinear type' the caption (same page ) reads: 'Pl. 8, no. 22:- Collected by J.H. Crace. 1935. Bone. Similar to no. 20, except that the sides are rounded. It is very finely ground, but the butt is rough. The cutting edge is obliquely convex.' [ZM 22/11/2011]

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Axe

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