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AFRICAN LATE MESOLITHIC/NEOLITHIC HAND AXE

Of highly developed thin elongated leaf shape of beige quartzite. A percussion flaked biface of refined Solutrian-like workmanship.
Found in N.E. Niger, Sahara Desert by Edward Francis, exhibited at Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 1963.

Ex private collection, Boston.

Ca. 4000 BC, L. 6 in. (15.2 cm.)

LC0620C
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