Rare Light-Duty Tool, Paleolithic, Lower Acheulian Start Price GBP 45.00 Current Price GBP 45.00 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 14, 2008 Location Germany See more about 'Rare Light-Duty Tool, Paleolithic, Lower Acheulian' Description Rare Light-Duty Tool, Paleolithic, Lower Acheulian  DescriptionType: laterally retouched flakePaleolithic Period, Industry: Lower Paleolithic, Lower Acheulian Dating: in Europe still dated ca. 800 to 400 ka. But very recent archaeological research in Western Europe proved that the European continent has been conquested as early as 1,2 to 1,1 Myr. – Early Pleistocene (on request more information will be given to our customers Description: Size: length 7,4 cm, width 9,5 cm, thickness 2,0 cm, weight 150 grams Shape, Retouch: length 8,3 cm, weight 150 grams Shape, Retouch: light duty tools are, aside of the heavy duty tools as choppers, chopping tools and handaxes, important tools of the Lower Acheulian industry. They were used for cutting / drilling / scraping soft material such as meat, wood, bone a.s.o. At some Lower Acheulian sites, the majority of stone artifacts were light duty tools, as at the famous French site Caune de l’Arago, Tautavel. This one here is a flat disc like ovate flake without visible point of percussion. It presents a lateral retouch around almost the entire margin, except the thickest part, shown as proximal end in the pictures. Retouch is alternating in sections, means, some strikes were made on the exterior, some on the interior side Raw-material: a flake out of gray quartzite, the most common raw-material on the Garonne terraces Preservation: very well: flake scars are somewhat rounded, but still well defined. One of the flake scars seems to be younger, it is visible in the first and third picture) Additional Information, Literature: The pebble tools found on the high gravel terraces of the Garonne, Tarn and Aveyron river are among the earliest tools found in Europe. Lit: A. Tavoso, Le Paléolithique supérieur et moyen du Haut-Languedoc, Paris 1978.Origin, Site: high gravel terrace of the Garonne, south of Toulouse, southern France We have been listing more interesting paleolithic artifacts, please have a look! Do you have questions? Don’t you find what you look for among our offers? Do you look for something particular, special or exceptional? Please send an email! Shipping policy: we ship internationally (worldwide). Buyer pays actual shipping charges. We combine items to save on shipping costs! Details will be settled with the buyer individually.About us: we are no traders, but we are selling only out of the own old collection. We guarantee for authenticity of our artifacts. On request we inform high bidders about provenance of the artifacts and we provide additional site information and dating (if available), taken from scientific literature.                    bachita Store Place a Bid!