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THBHuge Paleolithic Acheulean Stone Deflesh & Scraper Tool
Lot 86
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Features classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fine / Visual Arts, so much more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Northwestern Africa, Sahara Desert, Lower Paleolithic period, ca. 1.2 million to 500,000 years ago. This is a choice prehistoric Acheulean type of stone tool made from a massive quartzite, exhibiting unifacial side flaking. This tool would have required two-handed use and was an ideal blade to deflesh and scrape the hides of large animals to process the leather for shelter covers or clothing. Made on a large scale yet thinly flaked, the outline of the scraper was further refined with secondary flaking to the edges to shape its profile. There is a flat proximal side that was flaked to use as a grip. The broad cutting edge on one side shows extensive secondary retouching to re-sharpen the blade during repeated prehistoric use. Thousands of years of wind and elements has softened these flaked edges, as well as deposited a mesmerizing "desert varnish" to all surfaces of this tool. A bi-colored patina is also visible, caused by this flake scraper laying undisturbed for hundreds of thousands of years on one side. Size: 8.25" L x 5.25" W (21 cm x 13.3 cm)
This giant flake scraper was made and used by Homo ergaster (African Homo erectus) over a half a million years ago! It was surface collected from an exposed Acheulean site in the Sahara Desert of Africa. This Lower Paleolithic tool represents the first intelligent tool design type known to science, that was made by primitive humans. Prior to these Saharan Acheulean tools, only crude pebble tools existed in the human fossil record. This Lower Paleolithic giant flake scraper tool was relied upon for basic survival by Homo ergaster in the butchering of prehistoric hunted game animals such as elephant, hippopotamus, and giraffe that lived on the continent in that time. A tool like this was necessary to butcher and process such large kills.
Provenance: ex-private French collection, before 2006
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Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping.
#166803Complete with no repairs or restoration. Choice with gloss and bi-color patina from long term surface exposure on one face.Condition
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