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Flint handaxe of Urdiales

Urdiales del Páramo, El Páramo, León

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Flint handaxe of Urdiales

Curiosity · Urdiales del Páramo, El Páramo, León

Image of Urdiales del Páramo, not of the place itself.

Found in 1948 and dated to the Lower Palaeolithic, it is, together with the quartzite trihedral pick from Villarrín del Páramo, one of only two pieces of evidence of early prehistory known in the central part of the comarca.

Photo: Pablohn6 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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