Null Throat axe
Niger
Stone
Neolithic
H : 17 cm

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Throat axe Niger Stone Neolithic H : 17 cm

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Throat axe Niger Stone Neolithic H : 17 cm

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Lot including : - a "livre de beurre" nucleus - a brown flint from Grand Pressigny France, Neolithic Illegible ancient inscription Length: 22 cm - an axe blade sharpener Sandstone France, Neolithic or Bronze Age Illegible old label. L.: 12 cm - A small heart-shaped biface Beige flint France, Late Acheulean. Length: 7 cm - A fragment of a polished axe Beige flint France, Neolithic Inscribed "Ancienne collection Abbé Breuil". Length: 7.5 cm Expert : Mr Daniel LEBEURRIER

14 Neolithic stone tools, mostly hatchets, circa 4th - 3rd millennium B.C. Collection of Neolithic hatchets from various regions together with some other tools. 1) Five Scandinavian flint hatchets of different shapes, chipped and resharpened to varying degrees. One piece inserted in a reconstructed wooden mount. Length 12.3 - 14 cm. 2) Blunt-nosed axe made of brown rock with the inscription "China". Length 19 cm. 3) Blunt-nosed axe made of black rock with the inscription "Bretagne". Length 17 cm. 4) Three blunt-nosed axes from Morocco, two inset axes and one piece with a central notch running all the way around. Length 7 - 8 cm. 5) Pointed-necked axe marked "South Sahara". Length 14.3 cm. 6) Runner stone. Length 9 cm. 7) Two so-called "shoe last wedges" marked "Mauretania". Curved upper side of the cutting edge, flat ground underside. Length 9.5 - 14.2 cm. Provenance: Rhenish private property, taken over from the father's collection. Condition: I - II

Collection of stone tools, partly Neolithic, 6 pieces: 2 small perforated axes made of gray-reddish rock, l 5.5 and 5.8 cm; polished axe blade made of black stone, possibly Papua New Guinea, l 13 cm; 2 axe blades made of grainy greenish and light stone, l 8.2 cm and 10 cm; blade made of gray rock with old collection inscription (?), l 11 cm; Provenance: old South German private collection. 4428-141

Ax head made of stone. Neolithic, Scandinavia, 4500 - 4000 BC Provenance: Private collection, Mr. M., Moulins, France, formed during 1960 - 1970. 15cm long

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