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LOT 1259
Stone Age Tenerian Culture Celt Axe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 7500-5300 B.P.
4 3/8 in. (285 grams, 11.1 cm).
Pecked and ground with a curved cutting edge and a narrow rounded butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Tenera Region, South Central Sahara.
From a private French collection formed in the 1960s-1970s.
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Stone Age Implement Group
Neolithic, circa 4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Composed of scrapers, blades and other implements. 542 grams total, 36-80 mm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance. -
Stone Age Flint Arrowhead and Blade Collection
Neolithic Period, 8th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising mostly lentoid flint and chert arrowheads, a few tanged, together with a few blades; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 183 grams total, 26-81 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Stone Age Oldowan Pebble Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 2.6-1.7 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,210
Basalt or similar natural stone pebble with crudely knapped cutting or chopping edge; with inked KADA / Gona / Athiopien' findspot note and numbered '55'; with custom-made display stand. 340 grams total, 12.5 cm including stand
Found near Kada Gona, Ethiopia in the 1960s. Subsequently Stark collection, Germany. Later with the Celtic and Prehistoric Museum, Dingle, Country Kerry, Republic of Ireland.
The Oldowan implements, mostly comprising roughly knapped or chipped stone pebbles that provide crude cutting edges, are some of the most ancient artefacts made by the earliest recognised hominids, typified by the discoveries at Oldovan Gorge in Africa, found there by the Leakey family.
