Flake Tool

Unknown artist

Date: ca. 90,000–35,000 B.C.

Medium: Flint

Dimensions: No measurement

Country: Egypt

Period: Middle Paleolithic

Gift of C.T. Currelly, 1906

Date range

-90000 – -35000

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