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VERY BEAUTIFUL HAND AXE 
Large size:
Superb brown/purple colour (very nice patina of the desert, the side that remained in the sand is clearly different from the side that was subjected to the erosion of the desert)
Palaeolithic hand axe from 
the Western Sahara 

Has not been retouched. 
Size: 15.4 x 9 cm 
Thickness 4 cm
Weight 487 g 

Lower Paleolithic  (-300.000/-100.000 years ago)- ACHEULEAN PERIOD :Homo Erectus and Homo Neandertaliense.The caractéristics of this périod are: Handaxes(the most typical fibacial tools) and Cleavers( very large hand axes with a flat top)( No equivalence in Europa)

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PALEOLITHIQUE ACHEULEN - Western Sahara

Prehistoric, Neolithic Quartzite BIFACE ACHEULEN

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