Accession No
1937.487
Description
End Piece; Side Piece; Hollow Piece; Screw Driver Point; Pebble; Side Scraper; End Scraper; Hollow Scraper - Heavily rolled chipped pebbles. Examples of so-called Kafuan tools, now known to be naturally fractured stones. The specimens have Uganda Geological survey nos. as follows: 5 straight oblique pieces: 5311, 5901, 5902, 5903, 5904. 3 end (or side) scrapers with slayed edge: NT.3.8832, 5905, 5906. 4 pebble points: N.T.3.8834.5907, 5908, 5909. 4 hollow scrapers, end and oblique: NT.3.8817,5910,5911,5912. 2 straight and hollow pieces: 5913,5914. 3 side (or end) scrapers with more or less rounded (curved) business end: 5915,5916,5917. 7 straight vertical-edged end scrapers, ditto side scrapers: 5918, 5919, 5920, 5921, 5922, 5923, 5924. 7 split pebbles: 5925, 5926, 5927, 5928, 5929, 5930, 5931. 2 beaked: points: 5932,5933. 3 end and side pieces: 5934,5935,5936. 3 screw driver points: 5268,5937,5938. 2 double hollow pieces: 5258,5939
Place
Africa; East Africa; Uganda; Ankole; Kagera; Kagera Valley; Nsongezi
Period
Lower Palaeolithic Chellean Acheulean Early Late
Source
Wayland.E.J
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1937.487
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
See back of hand written card for possible duplication of entries. See Report no. 8818/86/2 in the Documentation File. Note on back of card: I have given the card 487.A because I don' t know if Wayland' s stuff has already been entered. If so, I don' t want to make confusion by inventing a lot of new card numbers; Found: From basal boulder bed of the 100ft terrace, Nsongezi, Kagera Valley; Collected by: Wayland.E.J
Event Date 3/10/1992
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Heavily rolled chipped pebbles. Examples of so-called Kafuan tools, now known to be naturally fractured stones. The specimens have Uganda Geological survey nos. as follows: 5 straight oblique pieces: 5311, 5901, 5902, 5903, 5904. 3 end (or side) scrapers with slayed edge: NT.3.8832, 5905, 5906. 4 pebble points: N.T.3.8834.5907, 5908, 5909. 4 hollow scrapers, end and oblique: NT.3.8817,5910,5911,5912. 2 straight and hollow pieces: 5913,5914. 3 side (or end) scrapers with more or less rounded (curved) business end: 5915,5916,5917. 7 straight vertical-edged end scrapers, ditto side scrapers: 5918, 5919, 5920, 5921, 5922, 5923, 5924. 7 split pebbles: 5925, 5926, 5927, 5928, 5929, 5930, 5931. 2 beaked: points: 5932,5933. 3 end and side pieces: 5934,5935,5936. 3 screw driver points: 5268,5937,5938. 2 double hollow pieces: 5258,5939
Event Date 3/10/1992
Author: maa
FM:65324
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