Core, possibly Mousterian, Middle Paleolithic

Unidentified maker (Arabian Peninsula)

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Overall: 4 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (11.4 × 8.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert W. Decker

165.23.15614

Geography

Place Made: Rub'al-Khali, Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, West Asia, Asia

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Archaeology

Near East

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Sam Zimmerman of the Aramco Co., Seismic station No. 6, 13, 14, southwestern part of Rub-A-Khli, Saudia Arabia; to Robert W. Decker (1927-2005); given to present collection, 1965.

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