Tool
2278
From: Japan | Honshu | Kanagawa Prefecture | Yokohama
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 2278 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Late Paleolithic (uncertain) | Jomon (uncertain) | Japanese |
| Provenience | Japan | Honshu | Kanagawa Prefecture | Yokohama |
| Period | Late Paleolithic (uncertain) | Jomon (uncertain) |
| Date Made | Late Paleolithic, Japan - Jomon |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Stone |
| Technique | Flaked | Chipped |
| Inscription Language | English Language |
| Description | Lithic tool. Thin and flat. One curved edge and four straight edges. One edge smoothly cut on a diagonal. Gray stone. This is one of a group of five stone tools which have several characterstics in common. They are 2275, 2276, 2277, 2278 and 2286. Each flat stone has a long narrow flat surface. They are made of similar types of stone and were collected in Yokohama. This fact as well as the crudeness of their retouching is comparable to the bifacially chipped adzes from this same series which have been assigned a Late Paleolithic or Jomon date. 2278 is particularly thin and does not have signs of reworking. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Francis C. Macauley, Esq., 1890 |
| Other Number | None - Field No SF | None - Other Number |
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