The Lower PALAEOLITHIC (Old Stone Age) Britain 2580,000 200,000 BCE This is the period of the earliest known occupation of Britain by humans. This huge period saw many changes in the environment, mainly glacial. Providing dating for this distant period is difficult and uncertain. The inhabitants were bands of hunter-gatherers who arrived from Northern Europe using the land bridge (Doggerland) which, at that time, connected Britain to Europe. These hunter-gatherers lived before the ancestors of Neanderthals split from the ancestors of Homo sapiens 600,000 years ago. Flint tools such as bifacial hand axes, scrapers, points and flint flakes adapted as tools show an appearance.
Description: Lower Palaeolithic 'Spoon scraper'/Flint slab. Ref.# SI/4
Date: Around 500,000 - 200,000 years BCE
Marks/Observations: Very nice flint bifacial rounded 'Spoon Scraper or Flint slab' showing well defined flaked edges. Very similar to Danish finds dating to the 500,000 to 400,000 BCE era.
Described by the British Museum from a photo sent to them as 'Flint slab with possible working on one edge. As the piece is iron-stained it may be Middle or Lower Palaeolithic in age'
Condition: Very good, well defined rounded shape with defined flaked edge.
Dimensions: 5cm x 5cm x 0.8cm
Price: R150.00
Shipping: R120.00 by courier
Please note, I am NOT a qualified archaeologist/antiquarian and the description I have given is based on research of the subject and communication with the British Museum.
This is a genuine artefact.
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