Accession No
1930.1533.6
Description
Straight-backed blade.
Place
Africa; East Africa; Somalia; Hormo District; Hormo
Period
Middle Stone Age Hargeisan
Source
Barrington Brown, Charles [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1930.1533.6
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Flint; Chert
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card (typed): 'c.65 implements of flint & chert ... A trace of Levalloisian but mainly Hargeisan'
Event Date
Author: Shelise Robertson
Description (Physical description)
c. 65 implements of flint & chert. Tools show several different patina. The white ?pinkishand specimens include a number of fine end-scrapers and battered backs, etc.
Event Date
Author: Shelise Robertson
Context (Found together / assemblage)
See also: 1930.1527
Event Date
Author: Shelise Robertson
Context (Display)
Two handwritten display labels found with 1930.1533. One reads 'End-scrapers' the other 'Burin'.
Event Date
Author: Shelise Robertson
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card (original): 'Implements of flint and chert ... Tool show several different patina. The white and pinkish specimens include a number of fine end-scrapers and battered backs, etc.'
Event Date 1930
Author: Shelise Robertson
Context (Related Documents)
See Doc.435 for 1931 Man article, 'Stone Implements from British Somaliland', and notes by Charles Barrington-Brown.
Event Date 1930
Author: Shelise Robertson
Context (References)
Burkitt, M.C. and Barrington Brown, C. 1931. 'Stone implements from British Somaliland'. Man, 164.
Event Date 1931
Author: Shelise Robertson
Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card (original): '...from terrace 1 mile N.N.W of Hormo, Hormo district'
Event Date 1932
Author: Shelise Robertson
Context (References)
Clark, J. Desmond. 1954. The Prehistoric Cultures of the Horn of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Event Date 1954
Author: Shelise Robertson
Description (Physical description)
J. Desmond Clark (1954): 'Straight-backed blades'
Event Date 1954
Author: Shelise Robertson
FM:282104
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