LARGEST OF THE COLLECTION ULTRA-RARE CAPSIAN AFRICAN NEOLITHIC FLINT MEDICAL SURGICAL PROBE AND BODY PIERCING NEEDLE *CAP418

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This CAPSIAN NEOLITHIC flake tool was found on an exposed African Neolithic site in the Sahara Desert of Northwest Africa.  It was masterfully flaked by African Neolithic humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) between 10,000 and 4,700 years ago.  In over the last decade, poor safety and security in the desert, as well as changing laws in North Africa, prevent any new collecting or discoveries to be made, making these artifacts increasingly desirable and valuable.

This extremely rare flint probe awl might have been used for piercing animal hides to sew clothing or tent shelters but the piercing end is so thin, it seems to delicate for that purpose.  Much more robust awls and piercers are known in flint from the Capsian Neolithic.  This unusual flake flint tool was most likely a surgical medical probe since warfare was prevalent based on excavated human burials, and wounds caused by embedded small projectile points would have been common.  A thin probe such as this would have been needed to extract the broken arrowheads from flesh in order to prevent infection.  Body piercing was known from this culture as many stone nose and lip plugs have been found.  This flint needle could have also been used for body piercing.

The delicate nature of this flaked tool defies explanation how it was made.  It demonstrates the highest level of flint-knapping skill of ANY Neolithic culture!  The original mineral deposits and patina are intact and deep in the flake hinge fractures and micro-crevices - traits ONLY found in AUTHENTIC specimens.

We have been obsessively collecting the finest African Neolithic Capsian arrowheads and flake tools, for over 20 years.  This offering comes from a small, select group we have been holding onto for the duration of more than two decades.  For many years, we have been to the source in the Sahara, and scoured literal buckets and barrels of tens of thousands of specimens each year.  Over the past decades, we have also purchased large private collections in America and Europe.  In all this time, we would set aside the RAREST OF THE RAREST flake tools of this Neolithic culture, and it is now time for us to sell some from this private, ultra-rare stash.  The collection is small and limited with no two being alike.  Each piece represents the highest degree of workmanship that we have ever seen.  These tools offered here are some of those precious specimens from such efforts.

If you strive to build a super-select collection of only the finest, rare specimens rather than boxes and boxes of ordinary types that will never appreciate or impress, then this offering is for you!