Reconstruction of Homo heidelbergensis
Image credit Jose Luis Martinez Alvarez, Wikimedia Commons
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A damaged example of an early polished stone tool
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14/02/2011 at 05:41
robert
The ‘Polished axe head’ is from the Neolithic not Paleolithic. Stone implements are often mislabeled on stock photo sites and end up wrongly attributed all over the net and newspapers (not being pedantic, just trying to help for future reference).
14/02/2011 at 13:59
heritageaction
Thank you for that robert.
The piece is actually in a private collection; it measures 92.74 x 47.07 x 23.52 mm and is described as, “A Polished Palaeolithic Axe. A damaged example of an early polished stone tool, slightly restored along its cutting edge.”
We’ve changed the caption until it’s been re-examined.