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LOT 1245
Stone Age Axehead Fragment Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 5/8 - 6 7/8 in. (1 kg total, 6.6-17.5 cm).
Comprising mostly fragments of pecked and ground stone axes, with part of a large knapped and polished flint type; this likely to be of Scandinavian origin. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Stone Age Aterian Tanged Arrowhead Group
Circa 85,000-40,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising twenty transverse style arrowheads. 149 grams total, 30-47 mm
From Grotte des Pigeons in Taforalt, Morocco. From the Arthur Halcrow Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK.
The tang would have been inserted into a split handle or shaft material, like wood or bone, and then bound in position with cord, or with a binding agent which would have harden to form a permanent bond. The Aterian is the name given to a distinctive stone tool industry made by anatomically modern humans between about 80,000 and 40,000 years ago. The tools are found on sites in northern Africa between the Atlantic coast to the Kharga Oasis and the western edge of the Nile River Basin. The manufacturing process for these tools is derived from the earlier Mousterian methods for working stone, using prepared and shaped cores from which were struck off large flakes which were then often unifacially trimmed into the desired tool shapes. They continued with the same basic stone working processes, but with a major conceptual difference. The Aterian style tools are the first to have clearly been designed and manufactured to be mounted on handles, with the projectile points and the scrapers having distinctive prepared tangs at the base of the tool or projectile point. -
Stone Age Acheulian Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, before 200.000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Cleaver-shaped with rounded butt. 584 grams, 16.6 cm
Discovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria - Acheulian industry of the Sahara. From an old Hamburg, Germany collection. -
Stone Age Oldowan Pebble Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 2.6-1.7 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,210
Basalt or similar natural stone pebble with crudely knapped cutting or chopping edge; with inked KADA / Gona / Athiopien' findspot note and numbered '55'; with custom-made display stand. 340 grams total, 12.5 cm including stand
Found near Kada Gona, Ethiopia in the 1960s. Subsequently Stark collection, Germany. Later with the Celtic and Prehistoric Museum, Dingle, Country Kerry, Republic of Ireland.
The Oldowan implements, mostly comprising roughly knapped or chipped stone pebbles that provide crude cutting edges, are some of the most ancient artefacts made by the earliest recognised hominids, typified by the discoveries at Oldovan Gorge in Africa, found there by the Leakey family.
