African Stone Age Homo Erectus Knapped Acheulean Handaxe

LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1,000,000-500,000 B.P.

4 7/8 in. (550 grams, 12.4 cm).

Formed in dark red quartzite with rounded butt and tapering lower end; tip absent. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the Northern Sahara, North Africa.
From a collection formed during the 1970s and 1980s, having been acquired on the British art market; thence by descent to the current owner in 1998.

CONDITION

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LOT 1738