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Image number: 1311
Feature : Acheulean biface
Grouping : rock art & debitage
Discipline : archaeology-praehistory-history
Year : 1999
Locality : Canteen Koppie, Windsorton
Country : South-Africa
Region - tribe : Northern Cape
Physiographic region : Vaal & Orange River basin
Notice : notice Acheulians produced big amounts of worked stones. Canteen Koppie is perhaps the richests Acheulean site on earth in the >0,7-1,5 myr range
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 1311.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"