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Concept

Tools, Prehistoric

Images

  • M0015032: Illustration of an Iron Age hand-axe found by the apothecary John Conyers in 1690
  • M0015344: Illustration of Mesolithic barbed points of bone and antler
  • M0014981: Two leaf-shaped flint implements, Upper Paleolithic (Solutrean)
  • M0015114: Upper Paleolithic scrapers or blades from Chatelperron, France
  • M0015119: Illustration of Upper Paleolithic scrapers from Chatelperron, France
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0015027: Illustration of various Middle Acheulian artifacts, found at lower Byon Hill Terrace around Maidenhead

    | Date: August 1956 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/134/14
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0015340: Illustration of a device used for holding stones while pressure is being applied in the manufacture of implements

    | Date: October 1956 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/137/5
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0015065: Illustration of three plugs for animals' wounds

    | Date: August 1956 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/134/52
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0015331: Flint flake showing bulb of percussion resulting from use of a hard stone hammer, produced by Leon Coutier

    | Date: October 1956 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/136/96
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0015124: Illustration of Aurignacian keeled scrapers

    | Date: August 1956 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/135/10
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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