Object type: archaeology / Collection place: Malaysia / Donor: Frederick L. Dunn - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Chopper, accession number 18-163, described as Elongate pebble chopper; schist; unifaced. Length 9 cm. Similar utilized flakes and “atypical Hoabinhian” tools were recovered from Gua Kechil I and II deposits in Alcove trench. See Dunn, F. L. (in press) “Journal Malayan Branch Royal Asiatic Society.”

Hearst Museum object titled Chopper, accession number 18-164, described as Elongate pebble chopper; basalt; bifaced. Length 8 cm. Similar utilized flakes and “atypical Hoabinhian” tools were recovered from Gua Kechil I and II deposits in Alcove trench. See Dunn, F. L. (in press) “Journal Malayan Branch Royal Asiatic Society.”

Hearst Museum object titled Chopper, accession number 18-173, described as Elongate cobble chopper (?); basalt; bifaced. Length 9 cm. Note with specimen says: “probable ‘blank’ for a polished Neolithic tool. - no similar blank found in Alcove deposit. (Several finished polished Neolithic tools, found in guano tailings, are deposited with the Archaeological Research Unit, Department of History, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.)”

Hearst Museum object titled Chopper, accession number 18-162, described as Elongate pebble chopper; basalt; bifaced. Length 8 cm. Similar utilized flakes and “atypical Hoabinhian” tools were recovered from Gua Kechil I and II deposits in Alcove trench. See Dunn, F. L. (in press) “Journal Malayan Branch Royal Asiatic Society.”

Hearst Museum object titled Core, accession number 18-172, described as Elongate core tool (chopper ?); basalt; bifaced. Length 9 cm. Similar to those recovered from Gua Kechil I deposits; see Dunn, “Journal Malayan Branch Royal Asiatic Society,” (in press). See also M.W.F. Tweedie, 1953, J.M.B.R.A.S. XXVI (2), plates 2 and 3.

Hearst Museum object titled Flake, accession number 18-167, described as Hinge flake; unutilized; basalt. Length 3.7 cm. Similar utilized flakes and “atypical Hoabinhian” tools were recovered from Gua Kechil I and II deposits in Alcove trench. See Dunn, F. L. (in press) “Journal Malayan Branch Royal Asiatic Society.”

Hearst Museum object titled Flake, accession number 18-169, described as Prismatic flake; unutilized; basalt. Length 3.2 cm. Similar utilized flakes and “atypical Hoabinhian” tools were recovered from Gua Kechil I and II deposits in Alcove trench. See Dunn, F. L. (in press) “Journal Malayan Branch Royal Asiatic Society.”

Hearst Museum object titled Flake, accession number 18-168, described as Unutilized flake; soft, pink, shale-like material. Similar utilized flakes and “atypical Hoabinhian” tools were recovered from Gua Kechil I and II deposits in Alcove trench. See Dunn, F. L. (in press) “Journal Malayan Branch Royal Asiatic Society.”

Hearst Museum object titled Ocher, accession number 18-220, described as Lumps of ocre; two orange, three reddish-brown; one shows smoothing and striation. “Commonly found in Malayan Neolithic sites - rare in Gua Kechil I and II, abundant in Gua Kechil III (Alcove trech).”

Hearst Museum object titled Potsherd, accession number 18-217, described as Various bodysherd; cord-wrapped paddle stamped in generally a criss-cross exterior design; brown ware with generally a coarse, gritty temper. “More or less typical of those found in the lowest ceramic-bearing levels in the Alcove trench at Gua Kechil (in association with Hoabinhian tools).”