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LOT 1591
French Stone Age 'Neanderthal' Bout Coupe Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 300,000-150,000 B.P.
3 5/8 in. (4 1/2 in.) (149 grams, 93 mm (190 grams total, 11.6 cm)).
Cordate in plan in deep black flint with a satin patina; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenanceFound Dordogne, France.
From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936 -2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West; also a Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France; his collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s, and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise, Val-d’Oise and the Dordogne.
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