Biface公司 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Biface公司
品名（英）	Biface
入馆年号	2018年，2018.51.1
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 700 - 公元前 200
创作地区	原产国: 法国（Country of Origin: France）
分类	工具（Tools）
尺寸	高 10 1/8 英寸 (26 厘米); 宽 4 5/8 英寸 (11.7 厘米); 深 1 1/5 英寸 (4 厘米); 重 2 磅 12 盎司 (1240 g)
介绍（中）	旧石器时代的手斧适用于各种任务，包括挖掘、切割和屠宰，是由不同种类的原始人制造的最早、使用时间最长的工具，有记录表明其使用时间长达170万年。这九个例子都是在法国Aisne的一个小地理区域内发现的，以其多样性和高质量的工艺而闻名。它们有力地体现了早期和持续的人类对完美的形式和美学的兴趣，正如它们的创造者努力赋予它们对称的面孔和边缘所证明的那样，远远超出了实际要求。这一组中最大的双平面是如此巨大，以至于它们作为工具几乎没有用处。尽管它们的具体功能仍然是一个猜测的问题，但很明显，它们一定是因为外观而非实用性而受到重视的。
介绍（英）	Suitable for a variety of tasks, including digging, chopping, and butchering, Paleolithic hand axes are the earliest and longest-used kind of tool made by diverse species of hominids, with documented usage over a period of 1.7 million years. These nine examples, which were all discovered within a small geographic area in Aisne, France, are remarkable for their variety and the high quality of their workmanship. They are a potent manifestation of an early and continuous human interest in perfection of form, and aesthetics in general, as demonstrated by their makers' efforts to endow them with symmetrical faces and edges, well beyond practical requirements. The largest bifaces in this group are so substantial that they would have been of little to no use as tools. Although their specific functions remain a matter of speculation, it is clear that they must have been prized for their appearance rather than utility.