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LOT 0320
Stone Age Classic Teardrop-Shaped Knapped Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000 B.P.
4 3/4 in. (148 grams, 12 cm).
Lentoid in section with broad cutting edge and narrow point. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a very old collection based on the cabinet patination.
From 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. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.7, for type.
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LOT 0320
Stone Age Classic Teardrop-Shaped Knapped Flint Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
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Stone Age Polished Stone Chisel
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
With narrow conical butt and asymmetrical curved edge. 343 grams, 16.6 cm
From 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. -
Stone Age and Later Artefact Collection
Neolithic Period, 4th millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising a mixed group of American, north African and European stone arrowheads and other tools, some with inked reference numbers 120 grams total, 19.5-94 mm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Shropshire private collector. -
Stone Age Flint Scraper and Other Implement Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising nineteen knapped tools and one polished implement. 405 grams total, 3.2-13.4 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
In the Neolithic the continuing predominance of flint artefacts did not stop the evolution of the society. The neolithic people were different in radical way from their predecessors. Farming rather than hunting was now the basis of the human existence, creating slowly but inesorably a more sedentary way of life in villages of timber-houses. Consequently the artefacts created by the men of Neolithic were tool instruments, like axes used in felling trees to create fields from the natural woodland, and in shaping timber for construction.
