Prehistoric — Lower Palaeolithic; c. 300,000BCE
Cleaver, chopper
A Lower Palaeolithic flint cleaver or chopped dating 400,000 to 150,000 BCE. This tool was shaped by striking flakes using a hammer made of stone, bone or antler. Tools like this could be used in a number of different ways, often they were held in the hand and used to cut or chop, to skin and butcher an animal carcass. Everyone in the population knew how to shape flint, working with locally sourced materials and knapping the flint to create a tool to fulfil an intended function.
The unusually fresh condition of this example suggests that it must have lain close to where it had been dropped by the last user.
- Category:
- Prehistoric
- Object ID:
- A11663
- Object name:
- cleaver, chopper
- Artist/Maker:
- —
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- Production date:
- Lower Palaeolithic; c. 300,000BCE
- Material:
flint, Stone
- Measurements/duration:
- L 148 mm, W 97 mm (overall), L 143 mm, W 92 mm, D 36 mm (overall)
- Part of:
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- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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