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LOT 1233
Stone Age Flint Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 - 2 3/8 in. (200 grams total, 23-62 mm).
Comprising mostly bifacial leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads, with a few uniface types; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [59, 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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