Side Scraper, possibly Mousterian, Middle Paleolithic
Unidentified maker (Arabian Peninsula)
Overall: 3 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (7.9 × 3.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert W. Decker
165.23.15616
Geography
Place Made: Rub'al-Khali, Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, West Asia, Asia
Object Name
Artifact
Research Area
Archaeology
Near East
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Sam Zimmerman of the Aramco Co., Seismic station No. 6, 13, 14, southwestern part of Rub-A-Khli, Saudia Arabia; to Robert W. Decker (1927-2005); given to present collection, 1965.
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