Handaxe

Museum number:

5-2477

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Accession number:

Acc.1669

Description:

Hand-axe; Chelles-Acheul type; quartzite; 6 1/2”L x 3 1/4” W

Donor:

South Africa State Museum, Windhoek

Collection place:

Sambio, Namibia

Culture or time period:

Acheulean and Chellean

Collector:

South Africa State Museum, Windhoek and South Africa State Museum Windhoek''South Africa State Museum

Collection date:

before 1962

Materials:

Quartzite

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Acheulean (ca. 1,760,000–130,000 BP) and Handaxes (prehistoric tools)

Accession date:

1962

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Dimensions:

width 3.25 inches and length 6.5 inches

Loans:

S1963-1964 #57: University of California, Davis (February 5, 1964–May 12, 1964), S1964-1965 #57: Amigos Anonymous/Phyllis Reid (March 2, 1965–March 3, 1965), S1965-1966 #68: Education Department (UC Berkeley) (March 3, 1966–March 8, 1966), S1966-1967 #74: Education Department (UC Berkeley) (February 22, 1967–February 28, 1967), S1967-1968 #32: Ygnacio Valley High School/Richard France (September 25, 1967–October 5, 1967), S1967-1968 #35: The Urban School/Douglas MacPhillamy (October 6, 1967–October 12, 1967), S1967-1968 #43: Golden West School/Bud Groth (October 20, 1967–January 3, 1968), S1967-1968 #70: Department of Anthropology (Sonoma State Univ.)/David Allen Frederickson (January 4, 1968–February 6, 1968), S1967-1968 #96: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Joel Grossman (February 22, 1968–February 22, 1968), S1968-1969 #24: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/David G. Mandelbaum (September 30, 1968–September 30, 1968), S1971-1972 #128: Department of Anthropology (CSU Stanislaus) (April 18, 1972–April 17, 1973), S1973-1974 #4: Education Department (UC Berkeley) (July 10, 1973–July 17, 1973), S1973-1974 #71: Education Department (UC Berkeley) (March 22, 1974–April 3, 1974), and S1974-1975 #75: Granada High School/David DiBiase (March 12, 1975–April 9, 1975)

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