M348 - MASSIVE NEANDERTHAL MOUSTERIAN FLINT SIDE SCRAPER FOUND WITH FOSSIL BISON JAW FRAGMENT FROM A ROCK SHELTER IN FRANCE

Product Description

ID

Mousterian Tool and fossil

FOUND

Rock Shelter - Caen, France

AGE

MOUSTERIAN:  80,000 - 40,000 years

SIZE

Scraper 4.1" long, Bison jaw 3.1" long

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 is a MUSEUM COLLECTION-WORTHY set of two exceptional artifacts of Neanderthal humans.  A MASSIVE Mousterian flint SIDE SCRAPER is included with a fossil partial bison mandible that was found at the same site and layer as the tool.  Both specimens were found in a rock shelter from Caen, France.  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, making this scarce prehistoric set a highly desirable acquisition for the best collections or investment!  These Mousterian artifacts 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 side scraper of ENORMOUS PROPORTIONS, but found with it comes a RARE fossil WISENT partial mandible 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 wisent 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.  The mandible is lacking teeth and shows evidence of butchering.  The giant side scraper is made on a very robust, flint struck flake and displays evidence of use on the cutting edge.  It would have been ideally suited for butchering large fauna such as the fossil comes from, 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.