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Flake tools (stone tools)
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: Hearst Museum object titled Backed blade, accession number 5-3636, described as Backed blade; quartz .
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: Hearst Museum object titled Backed blade, accession number 5-3637, described as Backed blade; small; tip missing .
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: Hearst Museum object titled Backed blades, accession number 5-10061, described as six backed blades
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Flake tools (stone tools)
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Africa
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Jebel Tomat, White Nile state, Sudan
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White Nile state, Sudan
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John Desmond Clark
758
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Glynn Llywelyn Isaac
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Musee de l'Afrique Centrale
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Charles M. Keller
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Don Crabtree
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Donald W. Clark
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Francoise Bordes
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Uganda Museum
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Paul Ozanne
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University of Ghana
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John Desmond Clark
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Rhodes-Livingstone Museum
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University of Cambridge
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Charles M. Keller
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Don Crabtree
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Francoise Bordes
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Paul Ozanne
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South African Museum
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Magosian
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Acc.2516
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Acc.3002
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Acc.2369
113
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Acc.1811
100
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Acc.2109
100
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Acc.1812
56
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Acc.2468
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Acc.1446
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Acc.2780
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Piedmont Avenue, UC Berkeley campus, Alameda County
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S2001-2002 #19: Integrative Biology Department (UC Berkeley)/Timothy D. White (April 10, 2002–June 2, 2023)
282
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S1996-1997 #10: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 14, 1997–April 9, 2007)
95
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S2005-2006 #2: Integrative Biology Department (UC Berkeley)/Timothy D. White (April 10, 2002–unknown)
83
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S1988-1989 #14: Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology /Nicholas Toth (October 1, 1988–July 11, 1989)
48
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S1987-1988 #14: Indiana University (August 24, 1987–September 30, 1988)
47
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S2023-2024 #1: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Lisa Maher (February 7, 2025–unknown)
18
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S1963-1964 #17: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (September 25, 1963–October 2, 1963)
1
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S1972-1973 #10: unknown borrower (August 21, 1972–February 6, 1974)
1
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S1986-1987 #31: University of California, Santa Cruz (April 28, 1987–June 8, 1987)
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