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Awl

Object Number:87-39-1186
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Neolithic
Swiss Lake Dweller
Provenience: Switzerland
Lake Neuchatel
Period: Neolithic
Date Made: 4300-2450 BCE
Early Date: 4300
Late Date: 2450
Section:European
Materials:Bone
Length: 7.1 cm
Width: 1 cm
Credit Line:Gift of American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1987
Other Number:L-37-1186 - Old Museum Number

Description

V-pointed. Removed from side of bone nucleus. (VB 1939)

Bone. V-pointed. Polished. (HNW 1933)

Bibliography:

[Book] Peale, Benjamin F. 1873. Specimens of the stone age of the human race as collected and arranged by Franklin Peale; Copied in photography with a catalogue and introduction, also various communications on the subject made by him to the American Philosophical Society.. Philadelphia. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. 92View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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