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Handaxes: Lower Paleolithic handaxes from Furze Platt, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England

Description

Handaxes from the Furze Platt site stored at the Royal Ontario Museum.

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source

Fox, William and Tony Baker. 2006. Dimensions of 600 Acheulean Handaxes from Furze Platt, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Online at http://ele.net/acheulean/FPatROM.htm.

Details

The data consist of measurements on 600 handaxes from the Furze Platt site stored at the Royal Ontario Museum that were measured by William Fox. The measurements follow the system used by Derek Roe (Roe 1964, 1968, 1981). Fox's measurements were digitized and by Tony Baker and uploaded to his website.

References

Baker, Tony. 2006. The Acheulean Handaxe. Online article available at http://ele.net/acheulean/handaxe.htm. Accessed Oct 14, 2013. Fox, William. 1969. An Analysis of the R. O. M. Collection, Lower Paleolithic Implements: Furze Platt, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Unpublished paper and notes in the possession of the author. Roe, D. A. 1964. The British Lower and Middle Paleolithic: some problems, methods of study and preliminary results. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 30: 245--267. Roe, D. A. 1968. British Lower and Middle Paleolithic Handaxe groups. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 34: 1--82. Roe, D. A. 1981. The Lower and Middle Paleolithic Periods in Britain. Routledge.

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