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Product Description
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This authentic stone tool was fashioned by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic period, over 40,000 years ago. It is made of flint and was collected from a former Neanderthal occupation site in La Faurie, France, located in the southern French Alps. Because digging in France for these artifacts has been legally off-limits for decades, genuine fine grade Mousterian Neanderthal tools such as this specimen, must come from old, private collections. The ever-increasing buyer market in pursuit of a very limited quantity of fine grade Old World Paleolithic artifacts continues to push values and prices up, as time goes on. This Paleolithic artifact was acquired over 20 years ago from a private Dutch collection that was formed in the 1970's. We have a very limited number of these specimens and when sold, we will never be able to offer more.
This is a Neanderthal flint flake tool classified as an AWL or BORER. It is complete with all its original flaking. Made on a small narrow flake with a naturally sharp point, this Neanderthal stone tool could have been used to pierce animal hides to sew garments, leather good and shelters. Normally, this type of tool is on a much heavier flake but the utilization of such a sharp flake would have made an ideal awl. Intact mineral deposits and deep patina are on the flint surfaces and in all hinge fractures to testify to authenticity and age, and prove lack of any modern alterations. This is a superb example from this unique and uncommon Neanderthal region!
