Prehistoric Mesolithic Mauritanian Chert Hand Tool

**Originally Listed At $350** Northern / Western Africa, Mauritania, Mesolithic Period, ca. 15000 to 5000 BCE. A large bifacial chert hand tool or axe that is expertly knapped from a mottled stone wit

**Originally Listed At $200** Ancient Northern/Western Africa, Mauritania, Mesolithic Period, ca. 15,000 to 5,000 BCE. A hand-knapped chert hand axe of pink-grey hues. The ovoid tool has convex crests

**First Time At Auction** North Africa, Morocco, Mesolithic Period, ca. 15000 BCE (17,000 BP). A large cutting tool knapped from a creamy warm gray and mottled pink chert, crafted by ancient hunter-ga

**First Time At Auction** East Africa, Ethiopia, Mousterian Period, ca. 300,000 to 40,000 years ago. A collection of 8 hand knapped chert tools, chipped and flaked by prehistoric human ancestors such

Native American, United States, Archaic period, ca. 3000 to 1000 BCE. A remarkable hand-knapped chert bifacial tool with a disc shape and a rounded upper face that is nearly perfectly smoothed, and a

**Originally Listed At $800** North America, Southern United States, Mississippian culture, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A large hand-knapped chert stone tool with a wide cutting edge and a narrow butt end. T

**Originally Listed At $350** Native American, North America, Eastern Woodland, ca. 200 to 1000 CE. A beautiful chert stone tool hand-knapped to form a curved base and straight sides that taper to a r

Native American, North America, Eastern Woodland, ca. 200 to 1000 CE. A lovely hand-knapped chert stone tool of rectangular form with a flat base and tapered tip. Naturally embellished in mottled hues

Western Europe, Northern France, Oise Department, Hardivillers, Paleolithic, late Oldowan to Acheulean period, ca. 1,000,000 to 40,000 years ago. A chert hand axe from prehistoric peoples- likely the

**Originally Listed At $300** North Africa, Neolithic period, ca. 6000 to 3000 BCE. A hand-knapped chert tool that was use as an axe or scraper tool, the surface is notable for the natural beauty of t

**Originally Listed At $300** North America, US Midwest, Missouri, St. Louis, ca. 1000 BCE to 1500 CE. A wonderful collection of twenty hand-knapped chert tools, including arrowheads, awls, and a sing

North America, United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, Mississippian culture, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A large hand-knapped chert stone tool with a wide cutting edge and a narrow butt end. The chert has

Native American, United States, Archaic to Woodland period, ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. A large collection of 115 stone projectile points and tools, all hand flaked from chert, obsidian, and quartzite pr

Prehistoric, Collection of ten hand carved stone tools including blades, scrapers, axe head, and mauls. Origin unknown. Various conditions. Largest 5-1/2"

West Africa, Mali, Mousterian Period, ca. 120,000 to 40,000 years old. A handsome chert biface, a stone tool made by Homo neanderthalensis to use as a hand axe. The tool has a nice manageable size and

Western Europe, northern France, Oise department, Hardivillers, Neolithic period, ca. 7000 to 2000 BCE. A trio of chert hand axes or scrapers, knapped stone technology that marked Neolithic life in no

**Originally Listed At $200** Native American, Southeastern United States, Arkansas, Mississippi County, Archaic to Woodlands periods, ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. A pair of knapped chert tools - both bif

**Originally Listed At $600** Northern Europe, Denmark, Neolithic Period, ca. 3900 to 1700 BCE. A quartet of fine stone hand tools which have been hand-knapped from chert of grey, crimson, caramel, an

Native American, Southwestern United States, Hohokam people, ca. 1000 to 1450 CE. A palette tool hand-carved from a flattened piece of gray slate, the slightly raised border around the shallow pan are

Native American, Southwestern United States, Hohokam people, ca. 12th to 14th century CE. A palette tool hand-carved from a flattened piece of slate, the slightly raised border around the shallow pan

Originally listed at $350 Native American, Midwestern United States, possibly Arkansas or Ohio, Mississippian culture, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A remarkable hoe head or digging tool, hand-knapped and pol

**Originally Listed At $350** Northwestern Africa, Acheulean (Lower Paleolithic) to Mesolithic Period, ca. 1.7 million to 8000 years ago. A pair of large hand-knapped stone tools that functioned as ha

A large European stone hand axe/tool. Of uncertain age, but manufactured from the dark grey chert as many Northern European and Scandinavian Neolithic tools. L: 6 1/2 in (15.4 cm). Ex Sussex, UK priva

Prehistoric, Several hand worked pieces including two fully grooved axe heads plus several other tools. Various conditions. Various sizes