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LOT 2371
North American Stone Tool Collection
WOODLAND PERIOD, CIRCA 7900-6900 B.C.
1 1/4 - 3 1/4 in. (125 grams total, 33-84 mm).
Including scrapers and a triangular obsidian arrowhead. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. similar arrowpoints in Horter, Bennett W., NRCS East Region, Projectile Point identification Guide, Dover, 1997, p.12.
FootnotesWhen the first arrowheads were developed in the Woodland culture, the bow and arrow began to replaced the spear and atlatl in hunting and warfare. The collection comprises a very interesting and old Amos type of arrowhead, This kind of tip was corner notched, with often serrated blade and the tip slightly off-center
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