Celt
97-563-10682
From: North America | United States of America | Maine | Hancock County (Maine) | Mount Desert (uncertain) | Blue Hill (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-563-10682 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Red Paint People |
| Provenience | North America | United States of America | Maine | Hancock County (Maine) | Mount Desert (uncertain) | Blue Hill (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Northeast Culture Area |
| Locus | grave |
| Period | Late Archaic | Maritime Archaic | Moorehead Phase |
| Date Made | 3000 BCE - 1000 BCE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Stone |
| Technique | Pecked |
| Description | This object is a lithic and is 11 ½ inches long. One side of the lithic is flat, while the other is raised and rounded. The flat side is light gray, and the rounded side is darker and has hints of red and brown. It is rough and smoothed only at the working edge. It is slender and parallel-sided. There is a large chip, about one inch long, on the working edge. |
| Height | 2.8 cm |
| Length | 29.4 cm |
| Width | 5.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-563-10682 - Old Museum Number | 28748 - ANSP Number |
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