Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool
Information
Ovoid, bifacial hand axe of brown banded flint. Slight zig zag edges.
Acheulean tools were produced during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe, and are typically found with Homo erectus remains.
Specifications
- Accession number
- 1973.35.124a
- Collection type
- Tools
- Culture
- Upper Palaeolithic
- Date made
- 40000 BC - 35000 BC
- Place collected
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt
- Materials
- Flint
- Measurements
- Overall: 102 mm x 66 mm x 31 mm
- Credit line
- Source currently unrecorded
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Location
- Item not currently on display