1928.68.301.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Leaf-shaped, pointed flake implement [.1]. The tip is separate [.2]. [MJD 23/04/2010]

Long description

Leaf-shaped, pointed flake implement [.1]. The tip is separate [.2]. The flake is grey with red flecks. The flake is tapered towards the distal edge. The left and right edges are retouched. The surfaces are retouched. The flake tapers towards the proximal edge. The proximal edge has an abrupt retouch. [MJD 23/04/2010]

Geographical reference

South Africa

Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa

Western Cape Province Cape Flats

Person

Field collector Henry Thurburn

PRM source Arthur John Evans

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Middle Stone Age

Date collected

1873

Acquisition information

Donated: 1928

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 9 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length 66 mm, Weight 22 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1928.68.301.1 Accession number: 1928.68.301.2

Research and responses

This artefact was identified as being of Middle Stone Age date by Dr Peter Mitchell. He also advised that other material collected by Henry Thurburn is present in the British Museum. See Mitchell, P. 2002. Catalogue of the southern African Stone Age collections of the British Museum. British Museum Occasional Papers 108: 1-232 [AS 11/03/2010]

Associated publications

Referred to on page 23 of 'Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa', by Peter Mitchell, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 16-34. Mitchell writes: ‘Additional MSA artefacts collected on the Cape Flats in the early 1870s (1928.68.298-308 and 1928.68.416-419) were acquired from Captain Henry Thurburn in 1872... other material collected by him at both localities is present in the British Museum (Mitchell 2002a [Catalogue of the southern African Stone Age collections of the British Museum. London: British Museum (British Museum Occasional Papers 108), with contributions from A. Roberts, A. Cohen and K. Perkins] ... All the objects mentioned here passed into the possession of John Evans and were donated to the PRM with other elements of his collection by his son Arthur Evans in 1928.’. [MJD 14/11/2014]

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