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A Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead found in the Cotswolds in the UK. This form of arrowhead dates to between 4000 - 2000 B.C. The arrowhead comes with the original Corinium Museum COA.
It would have originally been hafted onto a wooden shaft and used for hunting. This period saw the beginnings of a settled agricultural economy in Britain and the building of the first large-scale monuments - the long barrows, of which there are several extant examples in the Cotswolds.
Condition: Good.
Dimensions: 37.5 mm x 21 mm. Weight 5.7 grams.
Provenance: Ex. private collection, UK.
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£39.00
After the first farmers arrived in Britain around 4000 BC, new settlements and extraordinary monuments started appearing across the land. The Neolithic period had begun. This Neolithic Revolution was a period of human advancement across the world, as new technology and farming took hold, and sedentary civilisation became feasible. The earliest societies to abandon their hunter-gatherer lifestyles were the Middle East and China, their Neolithic period beginning around 8000 BC. The Neolithic in Britain came slightly later, introduced by migrants from Europe in around 4000 BC. They brought with them agricultural techniques, and the previously untamed landscape of Britain quickly became more ordered. The end of the Neolithic in Britain was around 2500 BC.
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