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Beautiful and Rare Neolithic flint Sickle / Knife.

Big Size: L. 150 mm.

c. 3500-3000 B.C. A nicely patinated and pleasant Neolithic flint sickle / knife. Fashioned from an attractive dark gray flint, bi-facially well worked to form both an inner and outer blade, the inner blade to act as a slicing sickle for cutting cereal crops and grasses, the curved other blade to act as an effective knife blade. 
Sickle in very nice condition surface patination and ageing. A very nice example of the type.

Beautiful and Well Preserved Stone Age Artefact. 

The Neolithic period was the last phase of Stone Age and is characterized by the use of polished stone weapons, tools and implements.The Neolithic tools & weapons: axes and hammers, adzes and chisels, knives and scrapers, sickle and hoe were used for cereal cultivation and animal domestication.The Chalcolithic (or Eneolithic) era marks a transition period to the Bronze Age with the introduction of Bronze metallurgy. In Europe the arrival of bronze tools and weapons not play a noticeable role in production for household or military craft. Stone still was used for implements or battle weapons. Many of them were multi-purpose tools that could be used as hoes, working axes, adzes, chisels and battle axes.
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The seller warrants that they have obtained this lot in a legal manner.
Purchased by the Vendor in 2006 in Leipzig Antique Fair, Germany from private collector.

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The seller of this lot hereby guarantees that this object was obtained legally. 
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4 - 3 Millennium BC - Europe

Prehistoric, Neolithic Stone  Flint sickle / knife - 15 cm

Archaeology

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Cretaceous, Lower (145 - 100.5 million years)

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