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LOT 1536
Stone Age Knife Blade and Other Tool Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
1 1/8 - 2 3/4 in. (181 grams total, 29-71 mm).
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [50, No Reserve]
Provenance
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Literature
See Greenwell, D.F., Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information.
Footnotes
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis.
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