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Product Description
These CAPSIAN TRADITION arrowheads were found on an exposed African Neolithic site in the Sahara Desert in Northwest Africa. Each was masterfully fashioned by African Neolithic humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) between 10,000 and 4,700 years ago. Each is an exceptional and complete specimen, high-graded out of hundreds and hundreds of inferior examples. Some of these have sold in auctions for nearly the price we ask for the set!
All of these arrowheads were fashioned out of chert and flint, and are both unifacial and bifacial in design. Each represents some of the many different styles found in this time period and tool tradition. Superb patina and wind sheen can be seen from long-term desert exposure.
These small arrowheads of the Capsian microlithic technology are similar to those found in a late Pleistocene graveyard that was discovered at Jebel Sahaba, north of Wadi Halfa in Sudanese Nubia with burials dating from 14,000 to 12,000 years ago. Some of the skeletons indicated their deaths were caused by microlithic weapons and small arrowhead projectiles like these. One man had 110 artifacts associated with his skeleton which had entered his body as stone barbs and points of projectiles. Two of the projectiles were still embedded in his skull.
