File:Cresswell leaf.jpg
Summary
A leaf-point from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresswell_Crags" class="extiw" title="w:Cresswell Crags">Cresswell Crags</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire" class="extiw" title="w:Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>, England, photopgraphed at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_Museum_and_Art_Gallery" class="extiw" title="w:Derby Museum and Art Gallery">Derby Museum and Art Gallery</a>.
The museums exhibit label says "Leaf-points were probably spear tips. They are one of the earliest recognisable objects made by fully modern humans in Britain. This is a particularly good example. c.38-35,000 years old".
(... I am told by Derby Museum that this object is from Creswell Crags, but is not from the Cresellian Culture - so I'm moving it <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Victuallers" title="User:Victuallers">Victuallers</a> (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Victuallers" title="User talk:Victuallers">talk</a>) 15:19, 27 July 2011 (UTC))
The tip of this object is in Manchester museum.
Taken during <a class="external text" href="http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Derby_Backstage_Pass">GLAMDerby Backstage Pass</a>.
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current | 07:27, 17 January 2017 | 322 × 697 (22 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | A leaf-point from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresswell_Crags" class="extiw" title="w:Cresswell Crags">Cresswell Crags</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire" class="extiw" title="w:Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>, England, photopgraphed at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_Museum_and_Art_Gallery" class="extiw" title="w:Derby Museum and Art Gallery">Derby Museum and Art Gallery</a>. <p>The museums exhibit label says "Leaf-points were probably spear tips. They are one of the earliest recognisable objects made by fully modern humans in Britain. This is a particularly good example. c.38-35,000 years old". </p> <p>(... I am told by Derby Museum that this object is from Creswell Crags, but is not from the Cresellian Culture - so I'm moving it <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Victuallers" title="User:Victuallers">Victuallers</a> (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Victuallers" title="User talk:Victuallers"><span class="signature-talk">talk</span></a>) 15:19, 27 July 2011 (UTC)) </p> <p>The tip of this object is in Manchester museum. </p> Taken during <a class="external text" href="http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Derby_Backstage_Pass">GLAMDerby Backstage Pass</a>. |
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