ACH222 - LARGE MUSEUM-GRADE STONE AGE HOMO ERGASTER ACHEULIAN HAND AXE FOR LARGE GAME BUTCHERING FROM AFRICA

Product Description

ID

Acheulian Tool

FOUND

Exposed Site - Sahara Desert, 
NW Africa

AGE

ACHEULIAN:  1.2 million - 500,000 years

SIZE

8.25" long x 5.4" wide

CONDITION

INTACT AND COMPLETE - NO REPAIR
OR RESTORATION - 100% GENUINE 
WITH CHOICE BI-COLOR PATINA FROM
LONG-TERM SURFACE EXPOSURE
ON ONE SIDE.

NOTE

FINEST MUSEUM EXAMPLE OF AN
AFRICAN ACHEULIAN HAND AXE 
DESIGNED FOR LARGE GAME 
BUTCHERING.  ONE OF THE MOST 
IMPRESSIVE SPECIMENS WE 
EVER OFFERED!  

Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of
authenticity / information sheet

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This Saharan Acheulean handaxe was made and used by Homo ergaster (African Homo erectus).  It was surface-collected from an exposed Acheulian site in the Northern 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 Acheulean tools, only crude pebble tools existed in the human fossil record.

You simply can not improve on this SPECTACULAR museum specimen of a large game butchering hand axe.  Made on a massive unifacial flake, this is a UNIFACIAL TRIANGULAR HAND AXE made in the Acheulian Tradition.  It is of an unusually large size and most definitely was intended to butcher the large game that lived in the region during the Lower Paleolithic (Pleistocene Period).  Its sharp pointed tip and triangular cutting edges would have aided tasks such as dismembering large hunted game, as well as smash open major bones to access the nourishing marrow inside.  This hand axe has been specifically flaked on the proximal end to be held in the LEFT HAND.  Holding an axe in the left hand would allow a right handed person to grab and pull flesh, hide and fat from the butchered carcass while the left hand chops it away such as with this cleaver axe.  Superb secondary flaking workmanship can be seen all along both edges.  A flat flaked facet on the grip allowed for comfort against the palm when held and used.  "Desert varnish" and bi-color patina indicates extreme long-term exposure undisturbed, on one side - traits only found in   authentic Acheulian artifacts.  This is a rare and fine grade reference specimen featuring all the premium features for this period and technology.  NO REPAIR AND NO RESTORATION. 

During the time of this axe, there were large elephant and hippopotamus species as well as giraffe species in Africa that primitive humans would have hunted.  An axe like this was necessary to butcher such large kills.