Description: GENUINE NEOLITHIC PERIOD KNAPPED FLINT TOOL. STONE AGE BRITAIN. Dimensions: Weight - 98.5 grams Size - 8 cm Tools were used for the cutting of meat and also for the preparation of leather for clothing, and they were made by knapping, or the hammering away at rock to sharpen and shape edges. During the preceding Mesolithic period, the inhabitants of the British Isles had been Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers. Around 4000 BCE migrants began arriving from central Europe. Although the earliest indisputably acknowledged languages spoken in the British Isles belonged to the Celtic branch of the Indo-European family it is not known what language these early farming people spoke. These migrants brought new ideas, leading to a radical transformation of society and landscape that has been called the Neolithic Revolution. The Neolithic period in the British Isles was characterised by the adoption of agriculture and sedentary living. To make room for the new farmland, these early agricultural communities undertook mass deforestation across the islands, dramatically and permanently transforming the landscape. At the same time, new types of stone tools requiring more skill began to be produced; new technologies included polishing. STONE AGE PERIOD IN BRITAIN AGE: 5000-3000 B.C. Provenance: Purchased from TimeLine Auctions in June 2024, part of a larger group of Flint tools; the provenance information from TimeLine: previously in a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate, thence by descent
Price: 25 GBP
Location: Evesham
End Time: 2024-09-01T15:33:01.000Z
Shipping Cost: 15.89 GBP
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Antique: Yes
Original/Repro: Original
Material: Flint
Country/Region: United Kingdom
Age: Pre-1800
