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LOT 1212
Stone Age Flint Arrowhead and Blade Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 3 1/4 in. (183 grams total, 26-81 mm).
Comprising mostly lentoid flint and chert arrowheads, a few tanged, together with a few blades; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [49, No Reserve]
Provenance
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Literature
See Greenwell, David, Fling Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information.
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