axe
granite
Neolithic
(c. 7000 BCE to 1000 BCE)
Djado Plateau, northeast Niger
length 7 ¾
inches
acquired by Jack Daulton in Niger
For a
similar type from the Sahara in polished green stone, see: Tom Phillips, ed., Africa, The Art of a
Continent (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2004), pg. 549, ill. no. 7.5.
