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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