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Object Number 57-20-50/10149
Display Title 3 CASTS of large massive elongated handaxes
Descriptions
Inventory Description Casting of chipped stone bifaces, hand axes, ovate, crude, large, thick, pointed
Classification
  • Casting
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Chellean II
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Tanzania
Intrasite Levels varying from 10 to 15 feet above base of Bed II
Additional Geographic Terms Tanganyika, Northern: Olduvai Gorge
Materials Plaster
Dimensions Overall: 21.3 x 9.6 x 10 cm (8 3/8 x 3 3/4 x 3 15/16 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 57-20-50/10149; OLDOWAY; 1931.3383; DK II; CH I; 3a; II; x.9.3; CH II; 19; 3b;

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Raw Material
Cast
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Axe
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