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LOT 1573

Stone Age Large Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.

2 - 1 1/2 in. (127 grams total, 24-37 mm).

Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [50, No Reserve]

Provenance

UK gallery, early 2000s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

See Greenwell, David, 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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LOT 1573

Stone Age Large Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection

Sold for (Inc. bp): £91

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