Discovery of neolithic polished bone axe-heads in africa

Discovery of neolithic polished bone axe-heads in africa


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ABSTRACT AN early occupation site at Esh Shaheinab on the west bank of the Nile about thirty miles north of Omdurman was excavated under the auspices of the Sudan Government Antiquities


Service in January and February 1949. Polished stone axe-heads, gouges, chisels and planes, small disk beads of amazon-stone, and serrated bivalve shells show that the culture was closely


connected with that of the Fayum Neolithic a thousand miles to the north. The type of settlement was also similar, with numerous hearths but no other trace of houses, and no burials in the


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See "_Early Khartoum_" (Oxford University Press, 1949). Download references AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Department of Egyptology, University College, London,


W.C.1 A. J. ARKELL Authors * A. J. ARKELL View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS


ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE ARKELL, A. Discovery of Neolithic Polished Bone Axe-Heads in Africa. _Nature_ 164, 589 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164589a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 01


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