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LOT 1585
Stone Age Large Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 2 3/4 in. (322 grams total, 29-69 mm).
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and scaphoid flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. [50, No Reserve]
Provenance
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Literature
See Greenwell, David, F., Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information.
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