Flint Gallery

Aphanite and chalcedony flint

Aphanite 1, and chalcedony flint with mastoids 2. Afanite, Selce calcedonioso a mastoidi. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration engraved by Corsi, drawn by Jean Gabriel Pretre and directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century

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Spain. Magdalenian (16000-15000). Scapula depicting a figure

Spain. Upper Palaeolithic. Magdalenian (16000-15000). Scapula depicting a figure of a female deer. Made with a flint burin. From El Castillo Cave, Cantabria. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid

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Funerary trappings of a mans grave at Dragsholm. 3800 BC

Funerary trappings of a man's grave. From left to right: Deer antler point, bone pin, wristguard of bone, battle axe of stone, arrowheads of flint and flint blades. Early Neolithic Period. 3800 BC. From Dragsholm, western Zealand. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

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