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Oldowan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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TEXTBOOK PERFECT EUROPEAN OLDOWAN PEBBLE CHOPPER TOOL ... It is a textbook perfect OLDOWAN PEBBLE TOOL CHOPPER from a Lower Paleolithic European site. You can see the proximal end for holding the tool is the natural and original end of this flint cobble and made for an ideally suited small chopping tool.
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VERY RARE EUROPEAN PEBBLE TOOL CHOPPER ... This particular tool is a pebble chopper manufactured in the Oldowan tradition. It was struck from a larger cobble of a natural flattened shape and is the flake that was produced from the strike. The edge was further worked as can be seen in the sixth image from the last.
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UNUSUALLY LARGE AFRICAN OLDOWAN PEBBLE CHOPPER TOOL ... Despite the fact that there are probably more Oldowan tools in Africa compared to the European specimens we offer, very few African pebble tools are collected or available. This splendid example is a RARE and unusually large PEBBLE CHOPPER.
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Object type; Stone tools ... Description; A ground edge hatchet head. ... Collector; Dr Steven Webb; Place collected; Orroral Valley, Namadgi, ACT, Australia; Found at BBQ area beside Orroral Creek at Orroral Valley, ACT. Date collected; 1983;
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Finally, compare the amount of effective cutting edge on this tool to the amount of effective cutting edge on the large pebble chopper illustrated in that section. This technique is clearly an improvement in efficiency as well as technique.
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LP20. Pebble chopper, 3 1/4" L x 2 3/8" W x 2 3/16" T, Tauoz, Morocco, greenish-gray, fine grained hardstone, super example from my personal collection, 1.4 to 2.2 million B.P., $125. ... LP42. SOLD Pebble chopper, 3 3/16" L x 2 11/16" W x 1 13/16" T, Morocco, quartz lightly polished by the shifting sands,
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China are part of the pebble tool - chopper/chopping tool tradition ... others are made from rocks, pebbles and cores. No chopper/chopping tools were found ...
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made from a pebble, a cleaver and a chopper. This is the best assemblage ... probable pebble-chopper and a very rough unifaced hand-pick. ...
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