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Stone Age Hand-Axes from Hoxne, Suffolk

Stone Age Hand-Axes from Hoxne, Suffolk
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Stone Age Hand-Axes from Hoxne, Suffolk
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Stone Age hand-axes from Hoxne, Suffolk, England. Engraving from an article by John Frere. In June of 1797 Frere wrote to the Society of Antiquaries describing that, in the same month, he had observed men digging clearly man-made implements from a Hoxne brick-clay pit. His article was ignored until 1859 when the archaeologist John Evans rediscovered the handaxes while making the case for the antiquity of man based on findings in France. The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with a sharp edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 6000 BC and 2000 BC with the advent of metalworking.
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2760 x 3320 px | 26.2 MB
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23.4 x 28.1 cm | 9.2 x 11.1 in (300 dpi)