Note number in brackets in title is just my inventory number.
I am not sure what this is supposed to be. It is one from a box of stone age artifacts that I have that includes many artifacts that I cant identify. Many are various scrapers, pounding stones, offcuts etc. Some might be broken fragments or unusual natural stones. I have a bunch from this shipment listed on ebay. Look over photo closely. What you see is what you get.
Between
60,000 and more than a million years old. Technology from one of our
very distant ancestors. Found in the Sahara Desert by nomads searching
for meteorites.
Dating
these artifacts is highly problematic but generally these become more
worked and better more symmetrical shape as time went by and the rougher
ones is toward the earlier (Older) range. Most are around 60,000 to
upwards of a million years old but some are believed to be more than 1.5
million years old. They are definitely pre neolithic as neolithic ones
were well worked and smooth - and usually smaller.
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I have a quantity of these so see my other ebay listings for more. I have enough listed to make a great study collection.
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From
Wikipedia (Reproduced as per their commons licence) - Homo erectus
(meaning 'upright man') was a species of archaic human from the
Pleistocene, earliest occurrence about 2 mya and are among the first
recognisable members of the genus Homo. Homo erectus was the first human
ancestor to spread throughout the Old World, having a distribution in
Eurasia extending from the Iberian peninsula to Java. African
populations of Homo erectus are likely to be the direct ancestors to
several human species, such as H. heidelbergensis, H. antecessor,
Neanderthals, Denisovans, and ultimately modern humans.