'Flake implement worked to point at one end.'[LKG 12/01/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: 'Flake implement worked to point at one end.'[LKG 12/01/2010]
Long description: 'Flake implement worked to point at one end.' Of grey stone with brown colouration around the inner edges of the point on the stone's dorsal side. [LKG 12/01/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Western Cape Province Cape Flats
Person: Field collector Langham Dale; PRM source Anthropological Institute (later Royal Anthropological Institute); PRM source Royal Anthropological Institute
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1878
Date collected: By February 1878
Acquisition information: Donated: 1900
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Width 21 mm, Length 43 mm, Weight 5 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1900.56.13
Associated publications: As well as exhibiting his collection at the Anthropological Institute on 26 February 1878, Sanderson also gave a paper about the collection; see 'Notes in Connection with Stone Implements rom Natal [a paper read by the author at a Meeting of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland on 26 February 1878]', by John Sanderson, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. VIII (1879), pp. 15-21. [JC 17 1 2002] Referred to on page 24 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: ‘Another early collection comprises the 40 stone artefacts (and 2 potsherds) collected or acquired by John Sanderson (principally in KwaZulu-Natal), exhibited by him to the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1878 (Sanderson 1878 [see above reference]) and donated by it in 1900 (1900.56.1-53). This is, in fact, the only 19th-century southern African Stone Age collection in the PRM that appears to have been exhibited to a British learned society, creating a sharp contrast with the origin of much of the British Museum's material of the same kind, much of which was acquired after first being displayed and discussed at meetings of the Royal Anthropological Institute or the Society of Antiquities (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).]’. [MJD 14/11/2014]

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