M289 - NORTH AFRICAN NEANDERTHAL MOUSTERIAN BACKED KNIFE WITH SUPERIOR EDGE KNAPPING

Product Description

ITEM # 

M289

ID

Mousterian Tool

FOUND

Exposed Site - Sahara Desert, NW Africa

AGE

MOUSTERIAN:  60,000 - 30,000 years ago

SIZE

5" long x 2.75" wide

CONDITION

INTACT AND COMPLETE - NO REPAIR OR
RESTORATION

NOTE

THE BEST MOUSTERIAN AFRICAN BACKED
KNIFE WE HAVE SEEN - EXPERT SECONDARY
BLADE RETOUCH FLAKING!!

Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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This is a masterfully executed large Mousterian BACKED KNIFE  of the finest possible quality and condition.  Of all the North African Mousterian tools of this type, this by far, is the best to date, we have offered!  The refined shaping and secondary flaking on both sides is of the most advanced form for this tool tradition.  The form and execution of this extraordinary knife must be held to be appreciated.  Designed for LEFT HAND use with a flaked flat back for comfort and a masterfully retouched cutting edge with a series of well-defined secondary blows to form a sharp blade edge.  This rare specimen displays all edges and sharp tip without modern damage.   This tool possesses natural desert sediment still intact in the microscopic crevices and a lack of any modern flake scars - traits found only with authentic Paleolithic Saharan stone tool artifacts. In "as found" ORIGINAL condition with  NO REPAIR AND NO RESTORATION.

This Middle Paleolithic stone tool was fashioned out of quartzite in the Mousterian tradition and could have been used by  Neanderthals and Homo sapiens between approximately 60,000 and 30,000 years ago.  It was collected from an exposed Mousterian site in the Sahara Desert of North Africa.  The tool tradition of the Neanderthals is called the Mousterian Tradition.  The Mousterian Tool Culture is found in one of the longest and most spectacular sequences in the whole of North Africa.  Several open and cave sites are documented.  Oddly, the North African Mousterian technology appears as fully developed unlike the gradual formative stages found in Europe.  Neanderthal genome mapping has shown that numerous regions across North Africa had evidence of Neanderthal human populations whereas, Sub-Saharan Africa was devoid of Neanderthals.