Steep keeled back scraper. Upper Paleolithic in character.
Donor:
American School of Prehistoric Research and British School of Archaeology at Jerusalem
Collection place:
Skhul Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel
Verbatim coll. place:
breccia deposits
Culture or time period:
Upper Paleolithic (50,000–9,000 BC)
Collector:
Theodore D. McCown
Collection date:
April-July 1931
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Scrapers (stone tools)
Accession date:
1933
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S2001-2002 #19: Integrative Biology Department (UC Berkeley)/Timothy D. White (April 10, 2002–June 2, 2023) and S2023-2024 #1: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Lisa Maher (February 7, 2025–unknown)