Replicated Hand Axe (1966a1-4)

**Acheulean hand axe** Location: France. Period: Early-Middle Paleolithic (before 300,000-100,000 years ago). Material: flint. Dimensions: length, 173.0 mm; width, 48.7 mm; thickness, 40.5 mm. Notes: Catalog no. 1966a1 (specimen 4). This specimen is one of 16 Paleolithic chipped-stone tools replicated about 1929 by French archaeologist Abbe (Henri) Breuil, Institute of Human Paleontology, Paris, France. It is part of a larger collection of Paleolithic artifacts that was acquired in 1929 by James Bell Bullitt during a tour of western Europe and later donated to the University of North Carolina. Specimen resides in the North Carolina Archaeological Collection, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Model by Abigail Gancz. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab