Collection place: Africa / Culture or time period: Paleolithic and Mesolithic / Loans: S2023-2024 #1: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Lisa Maher (February 7, 2025–unknown) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Collection place Africa Culture or time period Paleolithic and Mesolithic Loans S2023-2024 #1: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Lisa Maher (February 7, 2025–unknown)

1. Axe

Museum number:: 5-3758
Culture or time period:: Acheulean
Object class:: Handaxes (prehistoric tools)
Dimensions:: length 15 centimeters and width 8 centimeters
Collector:: John Desmond Clark
Collection place:: Kalambo Falls, Zambia
Collection date:: 1956-1960

2. Backed blade

Museum number:: 5-5381
Culture or time period:: Capsian
Object class:: Backed blades (stone tools)
Dimensions:: length 4 centimeters
Collector:: Charles M. Keller
Collection place:: Prospect Farm, Kenya
Collection date:: 1965

3. Biface

Museum number:: 5-1935
Culture or time period:: Acheulean and Mousterian
Object class:: Abbevillian (ca. 600,000–400,000 BP) and Bifaces (stone tools)
Production date:: 600,000–400,000 BC
Dimensions:: width 9.525 centimeters and length 16.51 centimeters
Collector:: L. Chapuis
Collection place:: S'Baikia, Algeria
Collection date:: 1961

4. Blade

Museum number:: 5-2401
Culture or time period:: Lupemban
Object class:: Blades (stone tools)
Dimensions:: length 9.8 centimeters and width 3.8 centimeters
Collector:: Louis Girard Segers
Collection place:: Kasongo-Maniema, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Collection date:: 1950-1960

5. Blade

Museum number:: 5-8130c
Culture or time period:: Late Acheulean
Collector:: Glynn Llywelyn Isaac and John Desmond Clark
Collection place:: El Beyyed Nord, Adrar region, Mauritania
Collection date:: 1967

6. Blade

Museum number:: 5-5385
Culture or time period:: Capsian
Object class:: Blades (stone tools)
Dimensions:: length 6 centimeters
Collector:: Charles M. Keller
Collection place:: Prospect Farm, Kenya
Collection date:: 1965

7. Blade

Museum number:: 5-1110.2
Culture or time period:: Pietersburg
Object class:: Blades (stone tools)
Collector:: Charles Lewis Camp, Frank Elmer Peabody, and University of California African Expedition
Collection place:: Rooiwal, Gauteng province, Republic of South Africa
Collection date:: 1947

8. Blade

Museum number:: 5-3416
Culture or time period:: Capsian and Paleolithic and Mesolithic
Object class:: Blades (stone tools)
Dimensions:: length 7.3 centimeters and width 1.8 centimeters
Collector:: unknown
Collection place:: Oued el Mekta, Tunisia
Collection date:: December 20, 1948

9. Blade

Museum number:: 5-2219
Culture or time period:: Wilton
Object class:: Microliths (stone tools), Microliths (tool components), and Wilton (prehistoric Sub-Saharan African culture or period)
Dimensions:: length 2.2 centimeters
Collector:: J. H. Power
Collection place:: Riverton-on-Vaal, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa

10. Blade and flake

Museum number:: 5-5405.6
Culture or time period:: Howieson's Poort
Object class:: Blades (stone tools)
Collector:: Charles M. Keller
Collection place:: Montagu Cave, Western Cape Province, Republic of South Africa
Collection date:: 1964-1965