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Three Pre-Historic, Lower Palaeolithic Flint Stone Tools
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Provenance
Provenance: From the collection of the late Dick Moy, Greenwich, London
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Literature:
The stone age technologists progressively improved the effectiveness of the hand-axe. The early Abbevillian type in Europe had some serious defects due to the primitive technique used to flake them. Although the tool maker had a mental picture of the reasonably efficient tool he wanted to produce, his technique was too primitive to allow him to control the shape of the implement in anything but a general way.
New techniques gradually developed and from them came the Acheulian hand-axe with its straight cutting edge, tapering section and two smooth faces. This flint tool was created by the technique of detaching long shallow flakes with blows of a baton striking very close to the tools edge. This produced a less clumsy, thick sectioned hand-axe and one more symmetrically shaped. Some of these later Acheulian hand-axes are the most perfect expression of the core tool concept.
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Description / Expertise
Three Pre-Historic, Lower Palaeolithic Flint Stone Tools
The largest marked Pick. Double ended. Transition. Somme Gravels. Abb 1841 and to the reverse 27
The larger Acheulian Biface marked: Somme Gravels. Abbeville and to the reverse 16
The smaller Acheulian Biface marked Abbeville
Circa 200-100000 years old
Sizes: 19cm long 7 ins long (max.)
10cm long 4 ins long (min.)
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