Punch

Museum number:

7-134

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Alternate number:

13 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.470

Description:

Chellean “coup de poing”.

Donor:

Louis Exsteens and University Appropriation

Collection place:

Somme Valley, Picardy, France

Culture or time period:

Chellean

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Abbevillian (ca. 600,000–400,000 BP) and Handaxes (prehistoric tools)

Accession date:

1914

Department:

Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)

Loans:

S1962-1963 #10: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Richard Roark (September 4, 1962–September 6, 1962), S1963-1964 #17: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (September 25, 1963–October 2, 1963), S1963-1964 #57: University of California, Davis (February 5, 1964–May 12, 1964), S1965-1966 #35: San Mateo College/T. Curren (November 8, 1965–December 20, 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), S1971-1972 #128: Department of Anthropology (CSU Stanislaus) (April 18, 1972–April 17, 1973), S1973-1974 #71: Education Department (UC Berkeley) (March 22, 1974–April 3, 1974), S1974-1975 #75: Granada High School/David DiBiase (March 12, 1975–April 9, 1975), S1977-1978 #41: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (February 28, 1978–March 1, 1978), S1983-1984 #29: The George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library (UC Berkeley) (November 10, 1983–November 11, 1983), S1988-1989 #28: SFO Museum (March 15, 1989–October 5, 1989), 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)

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