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LOT 0318
Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 480,000-250,000 B.C.
4 3/8 in. (225 grams, 11.1 cm).
Ovoid in profile and biconvex in section with narrow tip (absent) and broad butt; small portion of cortex to butt. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West, as well as an Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France.
This collection of flints was assembled between the 1950s and 1990s and originates from Ile-de-France, Oise, and Val-d'Oise.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.3. for type.
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