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| Picture No | 10410758 |
| Date | 1947 |
| Description | M .Leon Coutier finishing a hand-axe of 'Acheulean' type |
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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.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News, 28th June 1947, page 691 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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