An Egyptian Neolithic Flint Scraper, Neolithic - Pre Dynastic Period, ca. 7500 - 3700 BCE Glass Pellegrini

Pellegrini

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An Egyptian Neolithic Flint Scraper, Neolithic - Pre Dynastic Period, ca. 7500 - 3700 BCE Glass Pellegrinithe oval shaped tool percussion flaked from a piece of light brown flint. Percussion flaking was used to detach small flakes of flint from the upper surface by striking the flint with a hammerstone or other implement. For related example see: Payne, Joan Crowfoot, Catalogue of the Pre Dynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Clarendon Press, 1993, and Needler, W. Predynastic and Archaic Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum (The Brooklyn Museum