ACH229 - LARGE LOWER PALEOLITHIC ACHEULIAN HAND AXE WITH SHARP TIP MADE BY HOMO ERGASTER

Product Description

ID

Acheulian Hand axe

FOUND

Exposed Site - Sahara Desert,
 NW Africa

AGE

ACHEULIAN:  1.2 million
 - 500,000 years

SIZE

6.5" long x 4" wide

CONDITION

INTACT AND COMPLETE - 
NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION

NOTE

EXCELLENT BIFACIAL AFRICAN
ACHEULIAN HAND AXE.  SHARP
ORIGINAL TIP AND COMPLETE.

ROBUST FORM FOR LARGE 
GAME BUTCHERING!

Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of 
authenticity / information sheet

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This quartzite handaxe was made and used by early humans of the primitive species Homo erectus (ergaster).  It was surface-collected from an exposed Acheulian site in the 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 handaxes, only crude pebble and flake tools existed in the human fossil record.

This is a CHOICE example of a bifacial Acheulian hand axe.  It is made to fit well in the right hand and features an original, AS MADE sharp tip and places that were flaked for a better grip.  The entire axe is perfect as made with an intact and undamaged form in classical Lower Paleolithic typology.  During the time of this axe, there were large elephant species and giraffe species in Africa that primitive humans would have hunted.  An axe like this was necessary to butcher such large kills.  Tip and edges are intact.  In "as found" ORIGINAL condition with NO REPAIR AND NO RESTORATION.  Tip is not broken from recent damage or mishandling and is in perfect original form.