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LOT 1223
Stone Age Oldowan Pebble Hand Axe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2.6-1.7 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 7/8 in. (340 grams total, 12.5 cm including stand).
Basalt or similar natural stone pebble with crudely knapped cutting or chopping edge; with inked KADA / Gona / Athiopien' findspot note and numbered '55'; with custom-made display stand.
ProvenanceFound near Kada Gona, Ethiopia in the 1960s.
Subsequently Stark collection, Germany.
Later with the Celtic and Prehistoric Museum, Dingle, Country Kerry, Republic of Ireland.
The Oldowan implements, mostly comprising roughly knapped or chipped stone pebbles that provide crude cutting edges, are some of the most ancient artefacts made by the earliest recognised hominids, typified by the discoveries at Oldovan Gorge in Africa, found there by the Leakey family.
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