M.Leon Coutier finishing a hand-axe of Acheulean type
How stone-age tools were made: a modern recontruction of prehistoric skill. Coutier seen striking light blows along the roughed-out edge with a boxwood hammer. Coutier studied the Paleolithic forms for years and succeeded in producing objects indistinguisable from the tools of man in different stages of Stone-Age culture
Picture No
10410758
Media ID
46049393
Size
2860px x 4879px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
The Illustrated London News, 28th June 1947, page 691
Date
1947
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