M0015582EA: Paleolithic hand-axes / M0015582EB: Possible uses of microburins

Date:
December 1956
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WT/D/1/20/1/139/41
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M0015582EA: Paleolithic hand-axes / M0015582EB: Possible uses of microburins. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Paleolithic hand-axes
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Suggested use of micro-burins

Description

Two images on one negative: The first is an illustration of three hand-axes from Chatelperron, France, published in Breuil, Henri: "Etudes de morphologie paleeolithique", Revue anthropologique, vol.21, 1911. The second is an illustration of some possible uses of microburins, waste product from the crafting of lithic tools, published in an article by D. Peyrony and H. V. Noone in the Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Francaise, volume 35, 1938.

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December 1956

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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