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Object Number
57-20-50/10148
Display Title
3 CASTS of crude massive pointed handaxes
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Casting of chipped stone bifaces, hand axes, ovate, crude, large, thick
Classification
- Casting
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Chellean I
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Tanzania
Intrasite
Top of Bed I and basal level of Bed II
Additional Geographic Terms
Tanganyika, Northern: Olduvai Gorge
Materials
Plaster
Dimensions
Overall: 17 x 11.3 x 6.5 cm (6 11/16 x 4 7/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
Quantity
3
Label on object
57-20-50/10148; Oldoway; 1931.3902; 2b; VEX II; LH I; 45; x.9.2; '55; OLD BK II;
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 57-20-50/10149 | 3 CASTS of large massive elongated handaxes |
Casting
|
Tanzania
| |
| 57-20-50/10150 | 2 CASTS of massive elongated handaxes with triangular section |
Casting
|
Tanzania
| |
| 57-20-50/10155 | 3 CASTS of thick medium-sized elongated pointed handaxes |
Casting
|
Tanzania
| |
| 57-20-50/10154 | 3 CASTS of thick medium-sized elongated pointed handaxes |
Casting
|
Tanzania
| |
| 57-20-50/10156 | 2 CASTS of large thick pointed handaxes |
Casting
|
Tanzania
| |
| 57-20-50/10152 | 2 CASTS of large thick elongated pointed handaxes |
Casting
|
Tanzania
| |
| 57-20-50/10163 | 2 CASTS of medium-sized pointed handaxes |
Casting
|
Tanzania
| |
| 57-20-50/10162 | 2 CASTS of large elongated pointed handaxes |
Casting
|
Tanzania
| |
| 50-62-40/6958 | 5 crude pointed stone handaxes |
Axe
|
Villaverde
| |
| 50-62-40/6959 | 4 medium-sized crude stone handaxes |
Axe
|
Villaverde
| |
| 50-62-40/6957 | 3 crude stone handaxes or choppers-medium sized |
Axe
|
Villaverde
| |
| 50-62-40/6956 | 3 large crude stone handaxes or choppers |
Axe
|
Villaverde
|