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LOT 1432
Stone Age 'Plazac' Neanderthal Knapped Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 250,000-60,000 YEARS B.P.
4 3/8 in. (253 grams, 11 cm).
Cordat in plan with broad butt, some cortex remaining. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Plazac, Dordogne Region, France.
From an old private collection formed in the 1950s.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987,
item 1.27, for type.
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