Camposanquiense Pebble Pickaxe - Ancora / Portugal 13 000 BP – 88mm

Culture: Camposanquiense industry

Object: Pebble Pickaxe (trihedral shape) or Pico Camposanquiense

Material: Quartzite

Age: circa 13 000 BP

Origin / Discovery site: Vila Praia de Ancora – Portugal – in the 70's

Condition: Very good, no modern damage. See pictures

Last collection: Old Spanish collection, the name will be given to the buyer

This type of tool with one unknapped face coming from this region of the Atlantic coast are often mistakenly considered as Acheulean Hand Axe.

In reality they have been dated to the end of Palaeolithic or Mesolitic.

They were used to take off shells from rocks and also to open and consume them (limpet, barnacle, Oyster…)

In this area, humans groups whose main source of food came from the sea.

The "Ancoriense / Camposanquiense", is related to the "Asturiense" culture that developed on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea.

Those tools were tossed around by the tides of the sea and are now found along the coastline of Ancora. They were made from local quartzite pebbles and are characteristic of a later stage of the Pleistocene.

Dimensions: 88 x 57 x 43 mm

Weight: 194 g

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