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Object Number
37-74-50/2133
Display Title
6 quartzite fist axes
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Stone, chipped stone bifaces, fist axes, ovate, large, thick
Classification
- Axe
Department
Archaeological
Culture
- Acheulean
- Mousterian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
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Morocco
/
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<County>
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Tit Mellil
Materials
Stone
Dimensions
Overall: 24 x 13.3 x 6.8 cm (9 7/16 x 5 1/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Quantity
6
Label on object
37-74-50/2133; TM/1; TM/2; TM/6; (B/5141)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36-96-50/2317 | 2 large, thick quartzite fist axes, one evidently unfinished |
Axe
|
Western Province
| |
| 37-74-50/2145 | 3 quartzite fist axes on flakes - one sand polished? |
Axe
|
Tit Mellil
| |
| 36-1-50/1859 | 2 quartzite fist axes, heavily weathered - note sand blasting |
Axe
|
Fum-el-Alba
| |
| 36-6-50/1555 | 2 quartzite (?) fist axes |
Axe
|
Oldoway
| |
| 36-1-50/1860 | 3 quartzite fist axes (1 broken)- heavily weathered; note sand blasting |
Axe
|
Sud Ounan
| |
| 36-96-50/1746 | 2 minute quartzite fists axes or bifacial points |
Biface
|
Walasi Hill
| |
| 36-6-50/1544 | 5 stone fist axes |
Axe
|
Oldoway
| |
| 36-6-50/1537 | 2 stone fist axes |
Axe
|
Oldoway
| |
| 36-6-50/1539 | Quartz fist axes |
Axe
|
Oldoway
| |
| 36-6-50/1555.1 | 2 quartzite (?) fist axes |
Axe
|
Oldoway
| |
| 36-1-60/2649 | 4 flint fist axes - 3 heavily rolled & patinated with cortex adhearing |
Axe
Raw Material |
Syria
| |
| 36-6-50/1535 | 2 quartz fist axes |
Axe
|
Oldoway
|