Animal mandible bone
Animal bone, like this lower jawbone, was an important material for people in the Mesolithic. Bone could be used as awls, hammers or projectile points and as tools for making stone arrowheads. This example comes from Westward Ho! in Devon.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/2003/19MF
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- bone (animal)
- Common Name
- animal mandible bone
- Simple Name
- faunal bone
- Period Classification
- Mesolithic (10000-4000 BC)
