Flint in the Form of a Bird

4000–3000 BCE Overall: 5.2 x 5.2 cm (2 1/16 x 2 1/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.40

This flint is ground on one side and ripple-flaked on the other, indicating the date. Nonrepresentational flints were tools and weapons. Representational ones like this, however, were undoubtedly tomb gifts and never used. The type of bird represented is a Guinea fowl or quail...

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