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French chopping tool #2
The same place like the first picture in the raw.
This is a authentic typical trieder (pic) , worked out from a quartzite boulder by an early Homo erectus, age about 600.000-800.00 years!
(Quarzite is extremly difficult in making tools like this pics or handaxes and some flakes because of the natural material fissures, his mineralic structure and of it's bad splittering characteristics. So the manufaceres of this tools used her experience and the avantageously of this material is his high hardness.
French chopping tool #2
The same place like the first picture in the raw.
This is a authentic typical trieder (pic) , worked out from a quartzite boulder by an early Homo erectus, age about 600.000-800.00 years!
(Quarzite is extremly difficult in making tools like this pics or handaxes and some flakes because of the natural material fissures, his mineralic structure and of it's bad splittering characteristics. So the manufaceres of this tools used her experience and the avantageously of this material is his high hardness.