INTELLIGENT DESIGN LARGE PREHISTORIC STONE AGE ACHEULEAN KNIFE MADE BY HOMO ERGASTER *ACH418

Product Description

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This RARE African Acheulean prehistoric stone tool is an ENORMOUS UNIFACIAL KNIFE.  It was made and used by Homo ergaster (African Homo erectus) and is an uncommonly large example of the first use of a knife by primitive humans over a half a million years ago!  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 Acheulian tools, only crude pebble tools existed in the human fossil record.

Very seldom seen in private collections, a tool this type is rare from Africa with most Acheulian specimens collected being handaxes.  Furthermore, it is a large KNIFE.  It is a type of flake tool, fashioned by a large flake struck from an even larger tool core.  Acheulian FLAKE TOOLS are much more rare in Africa then Acheulian HAND AXES.  Edge photo shows intact prehistoric secondary flaking all down the cutting edges made by its original primitive human maker.  The cutting edges of this specimen exhibit excellent workmanship and extensive use.  Acheulian knives from the Sahara are VERY RARE and often overlooked in field collecting and rarely seen in collections.   

HISTORY

FLAKE TOOLS from the SAHARAN ACHEULIAN are much more rare then their Saharan Acheulian HAND AXE counterparts.  While handaxes are rather obvious in design and easy to therefore, recognize when collecting on a site, smaller flake tools have less obvious features at first glance and easily blend in with surrounding scrap flakes and natural stones.  The vast majority of private collections lack Acheulian Saharan flake tools in comparison to handaxes from the same period.   Perfect for use in butchering the large game that thrived in Northern Africa during the days of Homo ergaster.