Stone tool; hand-axe with butt broken. [MJD (Verve) 21/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone tool; hand-axe with butt broken. [MJD (Verve) 21/6/2017]
Geographical reference: Israel
Asia > Western Asia > Israel; Mount Carmel Tabun
Person: Field collector Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod; PRM source British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Lower Palaeolithic Acheulian Micoquian
Date collected: 1929 - 1931
Acquisition information: Donated: 1931
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 29 mm, Width: max 53 mm, Length: max 109 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1931.70.1494
Research and responses: Garrod excavated in Palestine between 1929 and 1934. These objects therefore must have been collected between 1929 and 1931 [CW 9/2/2000].
El Tabun, or the Tabun cave, was one of the sites excavated by Dorothy Garrod in the Mugharet el Wad area of Mount Carmel; her findings were published in D.A.E. Garrod & D.M.A. Bate, 1937, The Stone Age of Mount Carmel Volume I: Excavations at the Wady es-Mughara. Ed refers to layer Ed at the site [RTS 27/1/2005].
Associated publications: Garrod, D. and Bates, D. (1937) The Stone Age of Mount Carmel. Excavations at the Wady el-Mughara. Volume I. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [AS 15/06/2011]

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