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LOT 1224
Stone Age Flint Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/4 - 2 3/8 in. (134 grams total, 31-61 mm).
Comprising mostly uniface lentoid flint and chert arrowheads, a few tanged; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [50, 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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