Stone tool of brown grey colour. Pointed at one end and tapered toward the other, broadest across the middle. The steon has a cream patch toward the pointed end on one surface. [LKG 10/05/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone tool of brown grey colour. Pointed at one end and tapered toward the other, broadest across the middle. The steon has a cream patch toward the pointed end on one surface. [LKG 10/05/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Northern Cape Province Griqualand West
Person: Field collector J.G. Van Alphen; PRM source J.G. Van Alphen
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Early Stone Age
Date collected: By 1929
Acquisition information: Donated: 1929
Materials and processes: Material Stone
Dimensions: Width 83 mm, Length 158 mm, Weight 503 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1929.61.128
Associated publications: 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: ‘As already noted, over 500 artefacts of the South African - and indeed, southern African - collections derive, either directly or indirectly, from the activities of its first Curator, Henry Balfour, who maintained an active interest in the region's prehistory (e.g. Balfour 1910 [Archaeological and ethnological research. The Times (South African Supplement) 5th November 1910]) ... collections acquired from professional and amateur colleagues encountered on his visits to South Africa. These include 220 objects from sites in the Northern Cape donated by J.G. van Alphen (1929.61.1-200, 1931.54.1). [MJD 14/11/2014]

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