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- France

We were lucky enough to obtain these fine examples of French lithics from a private collector in Italy.


- Stemmed points 1 1/2" - 3 1/2" long

- Stemmed points from 2" - 3 1/4" long

- Solutrean Artifacts

The Upper Paleothic advanced flint tool making style is called the Solutrean Industry. It is named after the Solutre type site in eastern France. It appeared around19,000 BCE. The makers of these style tools used techniques not seen before and not rediscovered for millennia.

They made bifacial points that were realitively finely worked using pressure flaking. The pioneers of this flint working technique lived in modern France and Spain. They vanished from archaeological records around 15,000 BCE .

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