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
- Simple Name
- faunal bone
- Full Name
- mandible
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Common Name
- animal mandible bone
- Material
- bone (animal)
- Period Classification
- Mesolithic (10000-4000 BC)
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Contintent
- Europe
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Town
- Westward Ho!
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Site Name
- Westward Ho!
- Family Group
- Created At
- 2016-10-13 15:45:36
- Updated At
- 2020-01-28 11:42:40
