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LOT 1972
Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 - 1 3/4 in. (108 grams total, 22-44 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., Flint Artifacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005.
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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