Kotal (Pass) Leading Into Dasht-i-Nawur, Ghazni Province.

1974
But the team was rewarded with a considerable assemblage of the first definitely Lower Palaeolithic (ca. 100,000 BCE) tools identified in Afghanistan. The large flakes, cores, cleavers, choppers and adzes were predominately made of quartzite.
Photo: Louis Dupree

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Contained in galleries: NATIONAL MUSEUM I - BCE (Before Common Era)

1974<br />
But the team was rewarded with a considerable assemblage of the first definitely Lower Palaeolithic (ca. 100,000 BCE) tools identified in Afghanistan. The large flakes, cores, cleavers, choppers and adzes were predominately made of quartzite. <br />
Photo: Louis Dupree