Flake

Museum number:
9-789
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.682
Description:
Oval or rounded Levallois type of flake
Donor:
American School of Prehistoric Research and British School of Archaeology at Jerusalem
Collection place:
Skhul Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel
Verbatim coll. place:
breccia deposits of the Mugharet es-Sukhul, Mt. Carmel, Palestine
Culture or time period:
Middle Paleolithic (300,000–30,000 BC) and Upper Paleolithic (50,000–9,000 BC)
Collector:
Theodore D. McCown
Collection date:
April-July 1931
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Flakes (lithics) and Levallois technique
Accession date:
1933
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S2001-2002 #19: Integrative Biology Department (UC Berkeley)/Timothy D. White (April 10, 2002–June 2, 2023) and S2023-2024 #1: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Lisa Maher (February 7, 2025–unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Flake, accession number 9-789, described as Oval or rounded Levallois type of flakeHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Flake, accession number 9-789, described as Oval or rounded Levallois type of flake
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Flake, accession number 9-789, described as Oval or rounded Levallois type of flake

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