NEOLITHIC - EUROPE

TOOL CORE

Ref #:  225

Type:  Tool Core

Material:  Flint

Period:  Middle Neolithic (Michelsberg Culture)  6,000 - 4,800 years ago

Provenance:  West Europe

Measurements:  29 cm x 13 cm

Comments:  The specimen shown here is a complete example of the massive flint tool core "blanks" that were the end product of the flint trade.  This is a complete and unbroken example that represents the fundamental commodity of advanced European Neolithic commerce.  A tool core like this was bartered for and was the resource by which Neolithic Europeans fashioned all their tools and weapons out of.