Flint Artefacts from around the world & Neolithic Pottery
Neolithic Ténérian & Capsian Culture Axe/Adze Heads
Neolithic Ténérian (Late Stone Age) Axe head. Retouched Jasper tools. Retouching means that they were knapped again to reuse them, much like sharpening a chisel or an axe, putting a new edge on, refining and honing to get them to their most efficient. They would have been prized possessions. Never thrown away, and treasured, handed down. With care, they would have been used over and over.
These tools were found at the Borderlands of South East Niger and Mali, in a region called Agadez (Unless otherwise stated within the descriptions). Most often they were made from Grey, Green or Brown Jaspers but also included harder Basalt and Diorite Igneous rock. The Ténérian culture is a prehistoric industry that existed between the 5th millennium BC and mid-3rd millennium BC in the Sahara Desert.
Some Grind stones are also found here and included on this section periodically.
Aterian Palaeolithic Arrowheads & Scraper/Blades
The Aterian is a Middle Stone Age (or Middle Palaeolithic) stone tool industry centred in North Africa, but also possibly found in Oman and the Thar Desert. The earliest Aterian dates to c. 145,000 years ago, at the site of Ifri n'Ammar in Morocco. However, most of the early dates cluster around the beginning of the Last Interglacial, around 150,000 to 130,000 years ago, when the environment of North Africa began to ameliorate. The Aterian disappeared around 20,000 years ago.
The Aterian is primarily distinguished through the presence of tanged or pedunculated tools, and is named after the type site of Bir el Ater, south of Tébessa. Bifacially-worked, leaf-shaped tools are also a common artefact type in Aterian assemblages.
Neolithic Pottery
Neolithic age Pottery 3,400-2,200 BC
A chance to own a genuine identified piece of Neolithic pottery from Bardouville, Seine Maritime, Normandy, France. Neolithic pottery is characteristically crude and rough. Inclusions in the clay, of sand, shells and flints are common, as a way to strengthen the structure of the pot. You might find finger marks, lines where decoration might have been added and even burnt remains of the last meal, when the pot may have broken, or smashed ceremonially - perhaps after the husband did not come home from hunting or farming early enough, and his dinner ended up on the wall of the Long House.
Flint Scrapers and Blades from UK
Genuine artefacts from the United Kingdom. They come labelled, hand held specimens. I can provide a free certificate of Authenticity with any item on this website if needed. Please see individual descriptions for more details of origin and age.
Genuine Neolithic age Arrowheads & Blades from the Moroccan Sahara Desert, dated to around 4000 BC.
You can get many types of replicas on the market (we sell the Modern knapped Native American bird point jasper ones as well - perfect if you are low on budget and just want something aesthetically pleasing without the fear of breaking it).
The Moroccan Sahara is such a vast area in size, and so many artefacts found that there is no value producing any replicas. More often than not, replicas are made from sites that have the most collectable appeal where finds are rare and not often found or where people are strictly forbidden from collecting there, more specially in the USA. As you will see, these have the genuine original patina that only time in the sands can produce. They are also from well documented sites that stretch right across North Africa. Many exhibit sharply pointed lithics with finely knapped edges, others are jagged and stubby. Each had its own function. Many were for fishing and hunting small birds, others for small animals. Each comes in its own labelled gem box, ready for your collection and for the perfect gift. These are ALL genuine artefacts.
Collector Axe Head Acheulean tools from the Sahara Desert
Found in the Draa Valley, Tafilalt region, Morocco. Lower Palaeolithic age Acheulean Hand-axe. Beautiful patina and weathering to this piece. Genuine article from Mid-Late Acheulean workmanship.
Neolithic & Palaeolithic tools from France
These are very beautiful Neolithic age axe heads and other tool "rough-outs" from France.
Collector quality artefacts, they come with label and information of their discovery. There is something for everyone in this section.
These are very beautiful Neolithic age axe heads and other tool "rough-outs" from France.
Collector quality artefacts, they come with label and information of their discovery. There is something for everyone in this section.
Acheulean Palaeolithic Tools from Colombiers, France
Acheulean, from the French acheuléen after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand-axes" associated with Homo erectus and derived species such as Homo heidelbergensis.
Lower Palaeolithic age 1.76–0.13 Mya
Acheulean, from the French acheuléen after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand-axes" associated with Homo erectus and derived species such as Homo heidelbergensis.
Lower Palaeolithic age 1.76–0.13 Mya
Homo neanderthalensis artefacts - Mousterian (Levallosian) from Bergerac, Dordogne, France (and other French locations)
Mousterian is the name given by Archaeologists to the industry of flint production by the Homo neanderthalensis people. They are predominantly middle Palaeolithic in age, the middle part of the old stone age, so range from 80,000 to 40,000 years old. A rock shelter called Le Moustier in the region is the inspiration for the name. These artefacts are known to be much more smaller and specialised that the more bulkier ones found elsewhere, suggesting Neanderthals were highly intelligent in their tool making and thought carefully when working to maximise the number of tools they could create from a single chert core.
Mousterian is the name given by Archaeologists to the industry of flint production by the Homo neanderthalensis people. They are predominantly middle Palaeolithic in age, the middle part of the old stone age, so range from 80,000 to 40,000 years old. A rock shelter called Le Moustier in the region is the inspiration for the name. These artefacts are known to be much more smaller and specialised that the more bulkier ones found elsewhere, suggesting Neanderthals were highly intelligent in their tool making and thought carefully when working to maximise the number of tools they could create from a single chert core.
