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Grand Pressigny dagger from the Lac de Neuchatel

This is a small (8 cm) Grand Pressigny dagger from the Lac de Neuchatel found by an enthousiastic amateur during the late 19th century whithout any contexttual information. It seems that this small artifact was the end-product of repeated reworking. … Continue reading

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Stone Age after the Stone Age: Findings from the “Ochsenhart” site in Bavaria

This is a rough out of an early Bronze Age dagger from the Bavarian workshop site “Ochsenhardt”. Here the so called “Plattensilex” was used in large quantities for the production of daggers. Anyhow it remains unclear if this work was … Continue reading

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Chalcolithic near Perpétairi à Mollans

North in the Department of Vaucluse, near the famous Mont Ventoux, the valley of the Ouvèze is rich in prehistoric sites. It is near the confluence of the Ouvèze and Toulourenc, where during the first days of WW I the … Continue reading

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Grand Pressigny Flint

A MTA triangular Biface, a Neolithic flint-axe and a”livre-de-beurre”core for the production of large blades. In addition: Two arrow-points and fragments of neolithic daggers from Azay-le-Ferron, 26 km west of Le Grand Pressigny (Indre-et-Loire). All artefacts were collected during the 1930 … Continue reading

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The late Neolithic in Eastern Europe

Large sickles and Dagger-like thin artifacts, often made of delicate black flint and made with an advanced pressure flaking technique, are the characteristic for the late Neolithic/early Bonze Age in the East European Plain. This specimens come from the Crimea (near … Continue reading

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Late Neolithic Flint Dagger

Type Ib Dagger after Lomborg (Provenience: ex Aage Broens collection of Danish Neolithics). Lomborg’s thesis from 1973 was a seminal work in the study of the Late Neolithic in North Europe and still provides an excellent overview about this era. … Continue reading

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