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Product Description
SEE MORE EUROPEAN NEOLITHIC TOOLS AND ARTIFACTS
These FIVE flake tool cores date from 5500 B.C. to 4500 B.C., and are from the Early Neolithic of what is now present day Belgium. They were made by the Omalien people of the Linear Pottery Culture. These tribes were famous for being the first to practice farming and animal husbandry. Their tools represent extreme skill in craftsmanship and design being fashioned of the finest quality flint mined in this region of Europe. Tools from the Omaliens are rarely available for public sale and represent an excellent opportunity to acquire a genuine stone tool artifact from some of first agriculturalists of Europe!
Flint tools cores were the primary resource for all flint flake tools from the Lower Paleolithic through the Neolithic. These cores are complete and include both, prismatic blade and Levallois flake tool cores. You can see the longitudinal grooves from where blades were removed from the cores. Hammering evidence can be seen on the top edges. Mineral deposits are intact with patina staining deep in the micro-crevices and flaking hinge fractures - traits ONLY found in AUTHENTIC ancient and prehistoric stone tools.
HISTORY
A big step forward in the history of humanity is the introduction of agriculture and stock breeding. About 10,000 years ago the earliest farmers emerge in the Ancient Near East. The new way of food production reached the Belgian region 4,000 years later with the majority of settlements found on Belgium's most fertile soils. The presence of large numbers of post holes on those sites clearly indicates that these people lived in large wooden long houses, divided in three parts (stable, living quarters and storage). With the advent of food production comes the need for a second innovation - pottery.
Although the Omaliens were present for thousands of years, they mysteriously disappeared leaving only their black, richly decorated pottery with loop handles for hanging, millstones and well-made tools. No graves, or urns of ashes have been found and most particularly, no weapons, indicating a peace-loving people.
