Animal mandible bone
- Description
- Animal bone, like this lower jawbone, was an important material for people in the Mesolithic. Bone could be used as awls, hammers or projectile points and as tools for making stone arrowheads. This example was found at Westward Ho! in Devon.
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/2003/16MF
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Common Name
- animal mandible bone
- Simple Name
- faunal bone
- Full Name
- mandible
- Period Classification
- Mesolithic (10000-4000 BC)
- Family Group
- Material
- bone (animal)
- Collection Site Name
- Westward Ho!
- Collection Town
- Westward Ho!
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
