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1942.13.1839

Stone tool

1942.13.1839

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone tool
Geographical reference
Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Southeastern Nigeria
Date
Date collected
By 1942
Acquisition information
Donated: 1942
Materials and processes
Material Chert Stone, Process Flaked
Object numbers
Accession number: 1942.13.1839 Other numbers: 89
Research and responses

Dr Peter Mitchell, University Lecturer in African Prehistory and Curator of African Archaeology, and Oliver Wharton, a student of Archaeology, both of Oxford University examined the Jeffreys collection of stone tools in 2004. When the stone tools 1942.13.1751 to 1961 are laid out in sequence the white numbers on the objects, presumably written by Jeffreys, appear to follow a typological order. The numbered stuck on labels follow the same sequence but in some cases the white numbers have been read the wrong way around. For example, this was read as 68 and numbered 1942.W.J.1818 but if the typological sequence is followed it is 89. So this has been physically numbered as 1942.13.1839. [ZM 19/1/2005]

This Jeffreys collection of stone tools from Nigeria was written about in a thesis by Oliver Wharton an undergraduate student at the University of Oxford, copy in the researchers file. [ZM 7/9/2005]

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