M342 - VERY RARE NEANDERTHAL MOUSTERIAN FLINT KNIFE FOUND WITH FOSSIL REINDEER TOOTH FROM A ROCK SHELTER IN FRANCE

Product Description

ID

Mousterian Tool

FOUND

Rock Shelter - Dordogne, France

AGE

MOUSTERIAN:  80,000 - 40,000 years

SIZE

Knife 2.7" long, Reindeer tooth 1" high

CONDITION

INTACT AND COMPLETE.
NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION.
MINERAL DEPOSITS INTACT.

NOTE

EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF
NEANDERTHAL TOOL WITH HUNTED
AND EATEN REINDEER.  TOOTH AND
TOOL FOUND TOGETHER IN A ROCK
SHELTER IN FAMOUS REGION IN
FRANCE.  PATINA AND SEDIMENTS
OF FLAKE KNIFE AND FOSSIL TOOTH
ARE IDENTICAL.

INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX - Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of 
authenticity / information sheet

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This Mousterian flint NATURALLY BACKED KNIFE was made by Neanderthals over 40,000 years ago and was discovered in France in a rock shelter.  France is home to some of Europe's most spectacular Paleolithic sites nearly all of which are now closed and off-limits to any collecting, makes this scarce prehistoric weapon a scarce and highly desirable acquisition piece for the best collections or investment!  This  Mousterian tool came from a very old French collection as is the case with all the best material being stashed for decades and decades in private collections of yesteryear when collecting was possible.  Today, sites are depleted, closed and protected, preventing further digging of any new artifacts.

While we have had the opportunity to offer a number of fine Paleolithic stone tool artifacts over time, VERY, VERY SELDOM does one have the chance to offer actual fossils of animals killed and eaten by prehistoric humans in this period.  This set includes not only a Mousterian Neanderthal knife, but found with it comes this RARE fossil REINDEER molar tooth that was found in association with the tool!  Coming from a former Neanderthal rock shelter, these habitation sites can produce not only the stone tools left behind by early humans, but also fossil remnants of the prey they hunted and lived on.  In this case, we have a reindeer fossil that would have been hunted and butchered by stone tools, and consumed by Neanderthals in the very rock shelter in which it was found!  The patina and sediment colors are identical and the original French collector had made note of the fact that the two objects were found nearby in the same rock shelter.  Fossil hunted prey left behind by prehistoric humans offers important and fascinating additional evidence as to the kind of life they lived over 40,000 years ago, in this instance.   Tooth is nearly complete and only missing part of the root.  Flint knife is perfect with evidence of use on the cutting edge and is complete, as originally made.  Both objects show prehistoric patina, mineral deposits and cave floor sediment that is also embedded in the hinge fractures - irrefutable evidence of an authentic specimen.  NO RESTORATION, REPAIR OR MODERN DAMAGE.