Stone Age Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead Collection

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.

3/4 - 1 1/8 in. (31 grams total, 20-29 mm).

Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface triangular barded and tanged flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [25, No Reserve]

Provenance

UK gallery, early 2000s.

Literature

See Greenwell, D.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.

CONDITION

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