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300,000 to 90,000 BCE
From the Theban plateau
Beautiful pecked stone Homo erectus tools dating to the Lower Paleolithic Period: this is a period in prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools by Homo Erectus 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago.
Those from the Theban plateau near the Valley of the Kings in Egypt have been dated as between 300,000 and 90,000 BCE
Cf .Object 06.322.14 at the Metropolitan Museum, New York
Provenance:
Ex Himmerlein collection, Frankfurt, acquired in the 1960s and 1970s
Dimensions
Height 13 cmStock number
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