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LOT 1911
Large African Stone Age Homo Erectus Knapped Red Stone Handaxe
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1,000,000-500,000 B.P.
8 in. (727 grams, 20.4 cm.).
Substantial cleaver, piriform in profile with rounded butt, material with quartzite inclusions. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Goezzam, Sahara.
Ex old German collection formed in the 1970s.
Purchased on the European art market.
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LOT 1911
Large African Stone Age Homo Erectus Knapped Red Stone Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
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Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface barbed and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 105 grams total, 22-37 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis. -
French Stone Age Knapped Flint Point
Gravettian Period, circa 33,000-21,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Triangular in section with old collector's label 'La Groze du Tayac'. 1.00 grams, 46.69 mm
From Le Groze - Du Tay. Acquired in the 1970s-1990s. From the collection of the famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023). Acquired on the UK art market at auction after being sold by Mr Brox’s family. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
The Gravettian point (or Gravette point) is a small, narrow stone tool with a straight, blunted end, characteristic of the Gravettian culture. Serving as a key diagnostic artefact, these points were primarily used as weapon tips or armatures for hunting large Ice Age game -
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French Stone Age Knapped Flint Cordate Handaxe
Late Middle Palaeolithic, circa 160,000-40,000 В.Р.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Cordate handaxe made on a large struck flake, dorsal face completely flaked and the ventral surface with several large removals opposite the striking platform to form a grip; the rest of the surface left smooth as struck; slight 'S' twist visible in profile. 287 grams, 12.2 cm
From a collection formed between 1919-1940 by Mr Maurice Chevais (1880-1943) and subsequently purchased on the French art market.
