Product Description
ID
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Acheulian Tool
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FOUND
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Exposed Site - Sahara Desert,
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AGE
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ACHEULIAN: 1.2 million - 500,000 years
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SIZE
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5.5" long x 3.2" wide
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CONDITION
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INTACT AND COMPLETE. NO REPAIR
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NOTE
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COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF AN
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Actual Item - One Only
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This rare quality Saharan Acheulian hand axe was made and used by Homo ergaster (African Homo erectus). It was surface-collected from an exposed Acheulian site in the Northwestern Sahara Desert of North Africa. This Lower Paleolithic tool represents the first intelligent design type known to science that was made by primitive humans. Prior to these Saharan Acheulian tools, only crude pebble tools existed in the human fossil record.
This hand axe is a FINE example of a TRIHEDRAL PICK. The trihedral pick is characterized by its long, narrow pointed shape of three faces leading to a sharp tip. Hand axes of this type were designed to puncture large bones to access the highly-prized marrow inside, the most nourishing protein source of the period. The flaking is excellent and shows masterful craftsmanship from its primitive human creator. Light blushes of orange on one side caused by millennia of this side facing down and absorbing the minerals of the Sahara red sands. Other side shows a different color - a prized and classic example only found in authentic specimens. In "as found" ORIGINAL condition. NO REPAIR and NO RESTORATION.