1929.61.172

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone tool, brown in colour with uneven edges and a tapered end. Some chips around the edges have exposed black stone. [LKG 12/05/2010]

Geographical reference

South Africa

Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa

Northern Cape Province Windsorton

Person

Field collector J.G. Van Alphen

PRM source J.G. Van Alphen

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Early Stone Age, uncertain Archaeological period: Middle Stone Age Fauresmith, uncertain

Date collected

By 1929

Acquisition information

Donated: 1929

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Width 66 mm, Length 96 mm, Weight 166 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1929.61.172

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]

Search terms: Tool, Flake