PB113 - LOWER PALEOLITHIC AFRICAN OLDOWAN PEBBLE PIERCER TOOL OF GREEN JASPER WITH INCREDIBLE WIND EROSION

Product Description

ITEM # 

PB113

ID

Oldowan Pebble Tool

FOUND

Exposed Site - Sahara Desert, NW Africa

AGE

LOWER PALEOLITHIC:  1.2 million - 800K years ago

SIZE

3" x 1.25"

CONDITION

INTACT AND COMPLETE - NO REPAIR OR
RESTORATION - 100% GENUINE WITH EXTREME
WIND EROSION.  

NOTE

UNIQUE TOOL OF GREEN JASPER.  EXTREME
EROSION FROM WIND EXPOSURE!!! COMPLETE
WITH ORIGINAL SHARP TIP.  FINEST PRESERVATION.
RARE!

Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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This is a scarce OLDOWAN PEBBLE TOOL called a PIERCER.  It is made from GREEN JASPER but due to hundreds of thousands of years exposed in the desert, it has developed a fantastic surface texture.  What looks like cracks are the natural fissures in the rock when it was first formed in the Earth.  A tool like this would have been used to pierce animal hides or used to engrave the surface of an object.  The tip is still sharp with no damage.  The grip is perfect and the natural cobble outside makes for a very comfortable grip when held as shown in the photos.  NO REPAIR and NO RESTORATION - AS MADE!  SCARCE and with our highest recommendation.

Oldowan pebble tools are THE FIRST recognized tools invented by the earliest of primitive humans from Africa.  These tools are seldom seen in private collections or public exhibits.  Oldowan sites exist in numerous regions of the continent but it takes a very knowledgeable collector to be able to weed out all the naturally-occurring rocks that litter the ground from an actual pebble tool specimen.  As the origin of humanity and as the earliest of tool technologies, this African Oldowan specimen poses a very important potential addition to any advanced collection of Paleolithic artifacts.  It was made by the African Homo erectus known as Homo ergaster.   African pebble tools are not common on the market compared to their much later Acheulian relatives.  This specimen is part of a very limited collection we acquired.  Despite the fact that there are probably more Oldowan tools in Africa compared to the European specimens we offer, very few African pebble tools are collected or available for public acquisition.  This offering poses a rare opportunity to own an AUTHENTIC example of the first known tool type made by humans - a window into the mind and design thought process of our earliest ancestors. 

No one can doubt the importance that pebble tools hold in the history of human development.  Their very emergence in Africa nearly two million years ago allowed the earliest humans to butcher animals for their meat - the needed nourishment that allowed humans to survive and flourish to one day populate and rule the earth.