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Native American, Midwestern United States, Ohio & Michigan, Archaic to Woodland, ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. A fine pair of hand-knapped stone tools both with a petaloid, bifacial form. The larger is made from a black chert with large random flaking patterns across the faces and the periphery is sharpened around the whole blade. The other tool is a gray stone that is has broad and slightly convex faces that was perhaps ideal for scraping or cutting. Size (black blade): 5" L x 2" W (12.7 cm x 5.1 cm); (gray blade): 3.6" L x 2" W (9.1 cm x 5.1 cm)

Provenance: ex-Stein collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA, acquired prior to 2010

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#164110

  • Condition: Old inventory labels and putty from former displays on the surfaces of both. Find site written on surface of gray stone. Minor age and use expected chips and nicks, but both are intact and very good. Light mineral deposits on both.

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