M324 - UPPER PALEOLITHIC FLINT BLADELET TOOL CORE BY CRO-MAGNON HUMANS FROM THE DORDOGNE OF FRANCE

Product Description

ITEM # 

M324

ID

Flake Tool Core

FOUND

Rock Shelter - St. Laurent La Vallee (Dordogne), France

AGE

UPPER PALEOLITHIC (GRAVETTIAN):  
32,000 - 22,000 years ago

SIZE

1.85" x 1.75"' overall

CONDITION

INTACT AND COMPLETE - NO REPAIR OR
RESTORATION.  

NOTE

COMPLETE UNDAMAGED TOOL CORE SHOWING
USE.  REGION LONG PROTECTED AND CLOSED
TO COLLECTING. EVIDENCE OF LONG FLAKES
REMOVED IN PREHISTORY.  WITH BURIAL 
SEDIMENT INTACT IN MICROSCOPIC CREVICES.

Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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This is a complete FLINT TOOL CORE dating to the Upper Paleolithic Period of France.  This small core was typical for the "new" tool invention of the time - small prismatic bladelets.  You can see small strips of elongated ridges which were the areas of the core that such bladelets were struck from.  Cores like this authentic specimen were used by Cro-Magnon humans who once lived where this artifact was found - the famous Department of Dordogne, France, a major locale of Upper Paleolithic occupation in prehistory.  A tool core was the "bank of resources" for the stone tool maker.  Flakes were struck from the prepared cores and those flakes in turn, were fashioned into tools of various typologies.  In the Upper Paleolithic Period, a new form of flake tool was small prismatic blades which cores like this, were used to strike such flakes from.  An excellent example with original mineral and sediment deposits in microscopic recesses - a trait only seen in authentic specimens.  NO RESTORATION AND NO REPAIR.

No collection of Paleolithic tools would be complete without the inclusion of examples dating to the Upper Paleolithic Period.  This was an era of many of the most famous human development milestones.  In this period, the technology developing around the planet took place at slightly different times but globally, humanity was taking a huge turn for the better, and in overall unison.  A new level of tool production and craftsmanship emerged unlike ever seen before.  Modern humans first arrive on the scene and with them, they bring many new inventions - most notable is the concept of artistic expression as seen in the famous cave paintings that were only produced in this era.