Handaxe
- Description
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This quartzite handaxe comes from South Africa. Handaxes were multi-purpose tools that would have been very useful for cutting up animal carcasses.
- Accession Loan No.
- 45/2003/13
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Common Name
- handaxe
- Simple Name
- handaxe
- Full Name
- handaxe
- Dimensions
- whole length 177 mm; whole W 100 mm
- Production Year Low
- -800000
- Production Year High
- -700000
- Production Country
- South Africa
- Production Area Region
- Southern Africa
- Production Continent
- Africa
- Family Group
-
- Material
- quartzite
- Function Name
- tool
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Collection Continent
- Africa
