February 22, 2012
Stone Age tools given to WVU museum
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- An anonymous donor has given West Virginia University's Natural History Museum a collection of Stone Age hunting and gathering artifacts valued at $367,000.

The collection announced Wednesday includes arrowheads, scrapers, cutting tools and 2.5 million-year-old choppers.

The university says the artifacts will be primarily used in an undergraduate course and for education programs for children and the public. Some will be put on display.

 

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Stone Age tools given to WVU museum

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- An anonymous donor has given West Virginia University's Natural History Museum a collection of Stone Age hunting and gathering artifacts valued at $367,000.

The collection announced Wednesday includes arrowheads, scrapers, cutting tools and 2.5 million-year-old choppers.

The university says the artifacts will be primarily used in an undergraduate course and for education programs for children and the public. Some will be put on display.

 

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