Stone Age Leaf-Shaped Flint Arrowhead Group

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 8TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.

7/8 - 2 3/8 in. (132 grams total, 22-61 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.

Literature

See Greenwell, David, F., Artefacts of North Africa, privately published, 2005, for much information; cf. Noriyuki, S., ‘A missing Chapter of the Desert Fayum: Fayum Lithic Artefact Collection in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam’ in Archéo-Nil, no.21, april 2011, pp.115-146, pls.4,6, for the type.

Footnotes

Most of these Western desert arrowheads found in the area of North Africa, from East Sahara to Fayum, fall in the first half of the 6th millennium B.C. and some may be dated back to the late 7th millennium B.C. In addition, the tanged arrowheads and leaf-shaped arrowheads, similar to the Fayum examples, are well-known in the Pottery Neolithic Culture of the southern Levant during the late 7th-early 6th millennia B.C.

CONDITION

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