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LOT 0329
Stone Age 'Somme' Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 in. (147 grams, 12.7 cm).
Narrow body with broad butt; old collector's label to one side 'Hache Taillée / en silex patine blanche / L.13cm - Neolithique / Somme. 8000 à 3000 AJC / Homo-sapiens-sapiens'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound in the Somme Region, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.4, for type.
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LOT 0329
Stone Age 'Somme' Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Axehead
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
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Stone Age Flint Scraper and Other Implement Group
Neolithic Period, circa 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising nineteen knapped tools and one polished implement. 405 grams total, 3.2-13.4 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
In the Neolithic the continuing predominance of flint artefacts did not stop the evolution of the society. The neolithic people were different in radical way from their predecessors. Farming rather than hunting was now the basis of the human existence, creating slowly but inesorably a more sedentary way of life in villages of timber-houses. Consequently the artefacts created by the men of Neolithic were tool instruments, like axes used in felling trees to create fields from the natural woodland, and in shaping timber for construction.
