Accession No
1930.1537.2
Description
Tranverse-concave angle-burin.
Place
Africa; East Africa; Somalia; Hegligab
Period
Palaeolithic
Source
Barrington Brown, Charles [collector and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1930.1537.2
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Flint; Chert
Local Term
Measurements
Events
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
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card (original): 'Implements of flint and chert showing different states of patina from the HEGLIGAB district'
Event Date 1930
Author: Shelise Robertson
Description (Physical description)
Burkitt and Barrington-Brown (1931): 'Transverse-concave angle Burin. Light mahagony patina - less deep than that of specimens 1 and 2. Illustration shows both the under, flake surface with bulb and unfacetted stiking platform at base, and also the upper surface, formed by two long primary flakes, the keel in the middle, formed by their intersection, being truncated by a third, narrow, longitudinal flake'
Event Date 1931
Author: Shelise Robertson
Context (References)
Burkitt, M.C. and Barrington Brown, C. 1931. 'Stone implements from British Somaliland'. Man, 164, p. 3, illustrated (no. 10)
Event Date 1931
Author: Shelise Robertson
Context (References)
Clark, J. Desmond. 1954. The Prehistoric Cultures of the Horn of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pl.21.30.
Event Date 1954
Author: Shelise Robertson
Description (Physical description)
J. Desmond Clark (1954): 'Transverse-concave angle-burin'
Event Date 1954
Author: Shelise Robertson
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card (typed): 'C. 41 chert implements'
Event Date 1992
Author: Shelise Robertson
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