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    • EXTREMELY RARE UNBROKEN ELLIPSE-SHAPED WEST AFRICAN NEOLITHIC STONE BRACELET FROM THE SAHEL *CAP432
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    EXTREMELY RARE UNBROKEN ELLIPSE-SHAPED WEST AFRICAN NEOLITHIC STONE BRACELET FROM THE SAHEL *CAP432

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    Ground Stone Bracelet
    FOUND:
    Exposed Sahel Neolithic Site - Western Africa
    AGE:
    WEST AFRICAN NEOLITHIC: 5000 B.C. - 2000 B.C.
    SIZE:
    4.35" long x 3.4" outer dimension, 2.5" x 2.25" inner dimension
    CONDITION:
    COMPLETE. NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION. SUPERFICIAL AGE FISSURES (NOT BREAKS). DISCOLORATION ON AREAS WHERE THE BRACELET LAY EXPOSED IN THE DESERT FOR MILLENNIA. INTACT ANCIENT MINERAL DEPOSITS AND DESERT VARNISH.
    NOTE:
    THE ONLY ELLIPTICAL STONE BRACELET WE HAVE EVER SEEN FROM ANY AFRICAN NEOLITHIC CULTURE. AMAZINGLY, IT HAS SURVIVED INTACT WITH A STUNNING DESERT VARNISH PATTERN THAT SHOWS HOW IT LAY PARTIALLY EXPOSED FOR MILLENNIA! SUPER RARE!
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    Includes a LIFETIME GUARANTEE Certificate of Authenticity & Condition / History Sheet
    PROVENANCE:
    Ex-Private Tennessee, USA collection formed in the 1960's -1970's.

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    SEE MORE AFRICAN NEOLITHIC ARTIFACTS

    We have been obsessively collecting the finest African Neolithic artifacts for over 20 years and this specimen comes from our private collection that we are now offering for sale.  Over the past two and a half decades, we have purchased amazing private collections in America and Europe.  In all this time, we would set aside the RAREST OF THE RAREST objects of African Neolithic cultures, and it is now time for us to sell some from this collection of ultra-rare objects.  The collection is small and limited, and once sold, would be impossible to recreate due to changed legislation and site depletion.  Each specimen represents the highest grade of its kind that we have ever seen.  This is one of those precious pieces from such efforts.  The sites where these artifacts were once found, have been entirely picked clean for years, not to mention are now protected from any further exploration.

    This is a West African Neolithic Sahel stone bracelet.  It is in a very rare elliptical shape - the only one we have seen in this form in over 25 years of intense collecting!  It was made of a green soapstone which gives it a beautiful mint blue-green hue.  The real treat is the darkened iron-colored desert varnish patina that show how it lay partially exposed in the desert for thousands of years.  You can see how one edge was protruding up from the sand as this portion has been stained darker by a layer of iron and silica from the desert winds.  The brighter blue-green portion is what lay below the sand, protected from the wind.  This is why the darker area also has a glossier finish to it.  

    Amazingly, this remarkable specimen survived intact.  Many stone rings are often found broken or heavily damaged.  A rare Neolithic object of body adornment and prestige dating back thousands of years, that will surely be the highlight of any prehistoric jewelry display.  It is safe to say it truly is a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition! 

    HISTORY

    The Neolithic in West Africa, when people increasingly produced their own food instead of hunting, fishing or collecting it as before, developed during a humid phase around 5000 BC.  The invention of ceramics which was long thought to emerge in the earliest Neolithic, appeared at the central Malian site of Ounjougou dating to about 9,400 BC, and is believed to be an instance of the independent invention of pottery.  The earliest Neolithic is attributed to the phase of self-production of food, although no plants were cultivated and no cattle were kept.  

    The middle Neolithic is marked by first traces of nomadic cattle breeders (again) around 4000 BC.  Around 3500 BC, the relatively humid climate came to an end.  A thousand years later, the dry phase, which apparently drove cattle nomads from the east to Mali, reached its peak.  The northern lakes dried up and the population mostly moved south.  

    The late Neolithic was marked by renewed immigration from the Sahara around 2500 BC which had grown into an enormously spacious desert.  

    Approximated to the Neolithic, there were Negroid skeletal remains found in West Africa.  At El Guettara, Mali, there were two individuals found.  At Karkarichinkat South, Mali, a skull was found.  At Ibalaghen, Mali, there was a cranium found.  At Tin Lalou, Mali, there was a cranium and mandible found.  At Tamaya Mellet, Niger, there were 12 individuals found.  All of these remains have been specifically dated between 5000 BC and 2000 BC.

     

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    ID Ground Stone Bracelet
    FOUND Exposed Sahel Neolithic Site - Western Africa
    AGE WEST AFRICAN NEOLITHIC: 5000 B.C. - 2000 B.C.
    SIZE 4.35" long x 3.4" outer dimension, 2.5" x 2.25" inner dimension
    CONDITION COMPLETE. NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION. SUPERFICIAL AGE FISSURES (NOT BREAKS). DISCOLORATION ON AREAS WHERE THE BRACELET LAY EXPOSED IN THE DESERT FOR MILLENNIA. INTACT ANCIENT MINERAL DEPOSITS AND DESERT VARNISH.
    NOTE THE ONLY ELLIPTICAL STONE BRACELET WE HAVE EVER SEEN FROM ANY AFRICAN NEOLITHIC CULTURE. AMAZINGLY, IT HAS SURVIVED INTACT WITH A STUNNING DESERT VARNISH PATTERN THAT SHOWS HOW IT LAY PARTIALLY EXPOSED FOR MILLENNIA! SUPER RARE!
    :: Includes Display Case
    :: Includes a LIFETIME GUARANTEE Certificate of Authenticity & Condition / History Sheet
    PROVENANCE Ex-Private Tennessee, USA collection formed in the 1960's -1970's.

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