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Celtic and Prehistoric Museum, Director Harris Moore, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, Ireland, 00353 (0)66 9159191

The Stone Age

In all there are three rooms of  material dating from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic phases of the Stone Age. ..from the most primitive quartzite hand axes produced by Homo Ergaster about 800,000 years ago,  to the refined daggers and battle axes of 2000 BC.

Danish stone daggers 2000 BC
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Handaxes, France, ca. 300,000 BP
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Greywacke Double Axe 2000BC
Basalt Battle Axe, Denmark, 2500 BC