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French Pretty Lower Palaeolithic Handaxe from St Front, Dordogne.

Name: French Pretty Lower Palaeolithic Handaxe from St Front, Dordogne.
Brand: ArtefactsInYourHand
SKU: 1704434228
Price: 287.38 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5.0 (112 reviews)

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Vintage from before 1700
Materials: Medium: Stone

Pretty Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe/biface from St Front in the Dordogne Region,France. A very well made Acheulean type.

10.2cm long and 6.7cm wide

Pastel cream patina with tones of sky blue coming through which contrast against the sandy orange colours of the remaining cortex.

250,000 to 450,000 years old.

An excellent example for anyone's collection which displays so well too.

From an old collection.

Lower Palaeolithic;

The lower paleolithic period began with the first human occupation of the region. Stone tools discovered at Lézignan-la-Cèbe indicate that early humans were present in France from least 1.57 million years ago.

5 prehistoric sites in France are dated from between 1 and 1.2 million years ago:

the Bois-de-Riquet , in Lézignan-la-Cèbe , in the Hérault (1.2 Ma), discovered in 2008
the Vallonnet cave , in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin , in the Alpes-Maritimes (1.15 Ma), discovered in 1958
Terre-des-Sablons, in Lunery-Rosières , in Cher (1.15 Ma),
Pont-de-Lavaud, at Éguzon-Chantôme , in Indre (1.05 Ma),
Pont-de-la-Hulauderie, in Saint-Hilaire-la-Gravelle , in Loir-et-Cher (1 My).
None of these sites have thus far revealed any evidence of lithic industry which prevents identification of the human species responsible for them.

France includes Olduwan (Abbevillian) and Acheulean sites from early or non-modern (transitional) Hominini species, most notably Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis. Tooth Arago 149 - 560,000 years. Tautavel Man (Homo erectus tautavelensis), is a proposed subspecies of the hominid Homo erectus, the 450,000-year-old fossil remains of whom were discovered in the Arago cave in Tautavel.

The Grotte du Vallonnet near Menton contained simple stone tools dating to 1 million to 1.05 million years BC. Cave sites were exploited for habitation, but the hunter-gatherers of the Palaeolithic era also possibly built shelters such as those identified in connection with Acheulean tools at Grotte du Lazaret and Terra Amata near Nice in France. Excavations at Terra Amata found traces of the earliest known domestication of fire in Europe, from 400,000 BC.

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Topservice again! Thank you so much Gemma!

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And you have another on the way ;). Love the Rhino skull in the background 😍

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This is the second item that I have bought from here and the quality and beauty is just outstanding! Wonderful service I cannot recommend enough!

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Really kind for the words, so pleased you love the axe. This one was certainly a beautiful one 😍. Thank you again for the review and enjoy your growing display. Gemma x

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