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France
Wimereux
(North Coast)
Collection
of Charles Belart
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artifacts shown below are flaked tools and cores of Abbevillian/Acheulean
(AKA Clactonian) technology, apparently from about 500,000 years
BP and thought to be the handiwork of Homo
heidelbergensis. |
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An
"Abbevillian" hand axe or "chopper" with a finely
detailed quasi-anthropomorphic face image at the top of its
grasping surface. This heavily patinated piece was
discovered in 2005, having been washed up from the English
Channel onto the shore at Wimereux.
Below,
another tool from the same locus and in the same general form:
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Below, close-up
photos of the black flint piece above, showing unmistak- able and
precise working of the eyes on the face. Each eye is
roughly 5 mm across. Note that the iris of the right eye
(viewer's left) is convex, and the left eye's iris is concave. |
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Below,
an image in cortex material on the opposite side of the tool:
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Image
27 mm across. |
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Other
side of tool. |
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Working
edge. |
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A
chopping tool in zoomorphic form. |
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A
core in the form of a human-like head. |
| Another view of
the core in the preceding photo. |
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A
fluted hand axe or cutting tool.
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A
common form (representing what?)
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