A knobbed French handaxe, further evidence that our distant ancestors were capable of considerable invention and ingenuity. Centered knob on cortical handaxe base, the knob serving as a handle. The outer, cutting edges remain sharp. Late Acheulian Period, Maritime Seine, France. Circa 250,000 BC.
Other axes from the same tradition, some of them previously in our collection, were
exhibited in 2018 in “First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone” at the Nasher Sculpture
Museum in Dallas, amongst the first museum to present ancient hand axes and figure stones
as works of art, accompanied by a seminal catalogue with contributions by Jared Diamond (“Guns, Germs & Steel”), Tony Berlant, and others.
Ex. Duncan Caldwell, Paris.
On a custom museum stand.
6 in x 3 in / 15 cm 7.62 cm
A knobbed French handaxe, further evidence that our distant ancestors were capable of considerable invention and ingenuity. Centered knob on cortical handaxe base, the knob serving as a handle. The outer, cutting edges remain sharp. Late Acheulian Period, Maritime Seine, France. Circa 250,000 BC.
Other axes from the same tradition, some of them previously in our collection, were
exhibited in 2018 in “First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone” at the Nasher Sculpture
Museum in Dallas, amongst the first museum to present ancient hand axes and figure stones
as works of art, accompanied by a seminal catalogue with contributions by Jared Diamond (“Guns, Germs & Steel”), Tony Berlant, and others.
Ex. Duncan Caldwell, Paris.
On a custom museum stand.
6 in x 3 in / 15 cm 7.62 cm
