Blade

Museum number:

5-3416

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.1805

Description:

Capsian blade tool; flint

Donor:

Natural History Museum (London)

Collection place:

Oued el Mekta, Tunisia

Culture or time period:

Capsian and Paleolithic and Mesolithic

Collector:

unknown

Collection date:

December 20, 1948

Materials:

Flint (rock)

Object type:

archaeology

Object class:

Blades (stone tools)

Accession date:

1963

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Dimensions:

length 7.3 centimeters and width 1.8 centimeters

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)

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