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Stone Age 'Plazac' Neanderthal Knapped Handaxe
Stone Age 'Plazac' Neanderthal Knapped Handaxe
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Lower Palaeolithic Period, 250,000-60,000 years B.P. Cordate in plan with broad butt; thin point Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.21, for type. 251 grams, 11.9 cm (4 3/4 in.).

Found Plazac, Dordogne Region, France. From an old private collection formed in the 1950s. From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.

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Stone Age 'Plazac' Neanderthal Knapped Handaxe

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