Middle Paleolithic Scraper

Culture: North Africa

Period: 400,000-50,000 B.C.

Material: Flintstone

Dimensions: 13.8 cm long

Price: Sold

Ref: 6300

Provenance: Private collection Wilfriede and Leopold Tamm, Langenzersdorf, Austria, acquired in the 1970s. Since then in a family estate.

Condition: Intact

Description: Scraper worked out on both sides with a semi-circular, sharpened blade. Tools like the present one were used to even or split wood, to scrape off or clean skin, to cut meat or plants, as well as to scrape grooves in bone or stone. Found in Libya.