Later Acheulian Stone Tools / e)lawym23

Wymer (1982: fig.23): "Acheulian industries in Britain and France. 1. Elegant cordate handa-axe with cutting edge at tip formed by a tranchet blow, Hoxne, Suffolk: Lower industry. 2. Side scraper, Hoxne: Upper industry. 3. Hand-axe finishing flake struck with a bar-hammer of wood, bone or antler, Hoxne: Lower industry. 4. Scraper made on cortical primary flake, Hoxne: Lower industry. 5. Ovate hand-axe. Found in dune sand at Vron, north of Abbeville, Somme, France. 6. Cleaver made on a large primary flake. Note the pronounced cone of percussion at the bottom caused by the use a hammerstone. Gravels of the River Yare at Whitlingham, Kirby Bedon, near Norwich, Norfolk. 7. Proximal end of flint blade, Hoxne: Lower industry. Although the platform appears to have been carefully dressed before the flake was struck, this blade is probably a fortuitously shaped hand-axe finishing flake, as no prismatic blade cores are known in this industry. (5 from Baudet, 1959 [Baudet, J. L. (1959). Dunes Acheuléennes dans le Nord de la France. Quärtar 10-11: 277-81]."

Comment: The Hoxnian industries are dated to OIS 9, c. 300,000 BP.

Illustration © Wymer, J. (1982). The Palaeolithic age. New York: St. Martin's Press. Figure 23.