- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ground stone axe.
- Long description
- Ground 'narrow plano convex axe of green vitreous stone...the sides are bevelled inwards on upper side but not smoothly'. [ZM 24/3/2004]
- Geographical reference
- Arunachal Pradesh Noa Dihing River Ningru Village
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1935
- Date collected
- By 1935
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1935
- Dimensions
- Length: max 79 mm, Width: max 26 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1935.27.9
- 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]
1935.27.9
Ground stone axe.
1935.27.9
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