Skip to content
Pitt Rivers Museum
AboutHire the MuseumNewsletterUniversity of Oxford

1920.92.17

Stone tool; side scraper, brown, semicircular shaped. [MJD 02/02/2010]

1920.92.17

Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Terms and Conditions

If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.

Collection type
Object
Description
Stone tool; side scraper, brown, semicircular shaped. [MJD 02/02/2010]
Long description
Stone tool, side scraper, brown, semicircular shaped. Retouched right and distal edges form a curve. The left side is a straight break. The ventral surface is smooth. [MJD 02/02/2010]
Geographical reference
South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
North West Province Taung
Person
Field collector Neville Jones
PRM source Neville Jones
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Middle Stone Age
Date collected
1919
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1920
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Length: max 83 mm, Thick: max 17 mm, Width: max 55 mm, Weight 86 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1920.92.17 Other numbers: 41
Research and responses

Taung is in South Africa, since Bechuanaland was split between South Africa and Botswana along the Molopo river. Therefore items which came from Becuanaland such as this come from the present territory of South Africa [CRFW 3/9/2002]

Search terms: Tool, Flake

Further items to explore