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Image Not Available for Broad and thin pointed digging tools
Broad and thin pointed digging tools
Image Not Available for Broad and thin pointed digging tools
Object Number 01-36-10/48679
Display Title Broad and thin pointed digging tools
Descriptions
Object Description Broad and thin pointed digging tools
Inventory Description Bifaces
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Illinois / Union County / <City> / Mill Creek Quarry
Quantity 3
Provenance
Provenance W. A. Phillips (1899)
Provenance George A. Dorsey (1899)

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Image Not Available for Large pointed digging tools
01-36-10/48722 Large pointed digging tools
Mill Creek Quarry
Image Not Available for Large, thin, pointed digging tool
01-36-10/48724 Large, thin, pointed digging tool
Mill Creek Quarry
Image Not Available for Triangular digging tools
01-36-10/48672 Triangular digging tools
Mill Creek Quarry
Chipped stone edged tools, assorted scrapers, 1 discoidal, rest irregular, thin
2003.1.1161 Chipped stone edged tools, assorted scrapers, 1 discoidal, rest irregular, thin
Scraper
India
Image Not Available for Large, flat, slightly oval digging tools
01-36-10/48721 Large, flat, slightly oval digging tools
Mill Creek Quarry
Image Not Available for Large flat ovaloid digging tools with a concave-convex cutting edge
01-36-10/48712 Large flat ovaloid digging tools with a concave-convex cutting edge
Mill Creek Quarry
Organic, wood, tools, digging sticks, fragments, disintegrating
2004.1.243 Organic, wood, tools, digging sticks, fragments, disintegrating
Tool
Peru
Image Not Available for Pointed digging tool, large, thick, and heavy
01-36-10/48655 Pointed digging tool, large, thick, and heavy
Mill Creek Quarry
Image Not Available for Oval pointed digging tool
01-36-10/48671 Oval pointed digging tool
Mill Creek Quarry
Image Not Available for 9 stone tools - broad, rounded, worked "tips" - scrapers? celts?
56-50-10/36033 9 stone tools - broad, rounded, worked "tips" - scrapers? celts?
O'Bryan Ridge 5-T-4
Broad U-shaped quartzite cleaver-on-flake (?) comparatively thin;
47-60-60/9896 Broad U-shaped quartzite cleaver-on-flake (?) comparatively thin;
Cleaver
Gujarat
Ditch and ne mt. wall; men standing with their digging tools on the bank
2006.12.1.70.10 Ditch and ne mt. wall; men standing with their digging tools on the bank
Documentary
New Guinea