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Object Number
993-1-70/5637
Display Title
Chunk of quartzite
Descriptions
Object Description
Deep orange-brown natural chunk of quartzite
Inventory Description
Chipping debris
Classification
- Chipping debris
Department
Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
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Australia
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Western Australia
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<City>
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Monkey Mia
Additional Geographic Terms
Shark Bay
Materials
Quartzite
Dimensions
Overall: 3.7 x 3.1 x 3 cm (1 7/16 x 1 1/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
993-1-70/5637
Provenance
Provenance
Unknown
Collector
Irven DeVore
(Summer 1988 - 1/13/1993)
Donor
Irven DeVore
(Summer 1988 - 1/13/1993)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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for Quartzite
| 993-1-70/5643 | Quartzite |
Chipping debris
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Monkey Mia
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Image Not Available
for Quartzite chunk
| 993-1-70/5647 | Quartzite chunk |
Casual core
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Monkey Mia
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| 970-12-10/50364 | 2 large chunks of stone, approx. 146 stone chips |
Stone
Chipping debris |
Neville
| |
| 970-12-10/50357 | 1 coarse ware potsherd; 50 chunks and flakes of quartz; 33 chips and flakes of m |
Chipping debris
Stone Body |
Neville
| |
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Image Not Available
for Chert Chunk
| 993-13-10/74087 | Chert Chunk |
Chipping debris
|
Tukabatchee
| |
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Image Not Available
for Worked stone; chips, flakes and chunks
| 995-4-20/27327 | Worked stone; chips, flakes and chunks |
Chipping debris
|
Baja California
| |
| 970-12-10/51159 | 28 pieces stone (12 buff-colored flakes, 2 large chunks buff or pinkish materia |
Faunal Remain
Chipping debris |
Neville
| |
| 52-58-40/6388 | 2 flint and quartzite flakes |
Raw Material
Chipping debris |
Portugal
| |
| 970-12-10/50574 | Approx 80 pieces quartz; approx. 75 pcs stone; 1 small chunk red ochre (?); 1 sm |
Coal/clinker
Fragment Pigment Biface Chipping debris Projectile Point |
Neville
| |
| 36-96-50/2232 | Quartzite chip; small worked quartzite nodule, human?; large quartzite pebble + |
Chipping debris
|
Uganda
| |
| 44-41-60/8856 | Quartzite flake |
Flake
|
Nellore
| |
| 40-48-60/7198 | Quartzite trimming flake |
Flake
Raw Material |
Khasala Kalan, Site P. 6
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