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LOT 1232
Stone Age Flint Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 2 1/8 in. (140 grams total, 23-55 mm).
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads, a few tanged; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [58, 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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