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LOT 1477
Stone Age Flint Scraper and Other Implement Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/4 - 5 1/4 in. (405 grams total, 3.2-13.4 cm).
Comprising nineteen knapped tools and one polished implement. [20, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
LiteratureSee Greenwell, David, F., Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information.
FootnotesIn 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.
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Stone Age Flint Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowhead; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 152 grams total, 24-52 mm
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Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Scraper Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Triangular-section scraper with old inked inscription '4.SM.1085A / TWYDALL'. 98 grams, 67 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age Long Flint Arrowhead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 140 grams total, 33-56 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Between the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, some of the most useful human inventions were perfected, including the bow and arrow. The feathered arrow for hunting birds was invented. Most arrows used during hunting were tipped with flint or obsidian, although some had blunt wooden tips to stun birds without injuring them. The bows were made of ash and the strings were made of animal sinews.
