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LOT 1555

Stone Age Angular and Other Arrowhead Collection

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.

1 1/8 - 2 3/4 in. (148 grams total, 29-70 mm).

Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface flint and chert arrowheads, some triangular in section, slender and scaphoid in plan; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [50, No Reserve]

Provenance

UK gallery, early 2000s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

See Greenwell, David, F., Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information.

Footnotes

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.

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LOT 1555

Stone Age Angular and Other Arrowhead Collection

Sold for (Inc. bp): £98

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