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Hand adze of fossil wood
Hand adze of fossil wood
Object Number 38-65-60/9647
Display Title Hand adze of fossil wood
Descriptions
Inventory Description Stone, chipped stone biface adze, roughly oval, fossilized wood
Classification
  • Adze
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Neolithic?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Burma
Intrasite Misc. surface- found in association with Pagan silt (not in situ)
Additional Geographic Terms Pagan
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 6.3 x 14.3 x 10.2 cm (2 1/2 x 5 5/8 x 4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 38-65-60/9647; Pagan/(from the silt?)/M.B. the/concretion

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