Solutrean Laurel Leaf Point Replica, Flint Blade

A long, slender laurel-leaf point, pointed at both ends and flaked across both faces into a thin, symmetrical blade. Shallow, parallel flake scars run in from the edges, and the outline is a smooth, elegant leaf shape almost 15 cm long at 100%. Laurel-leaf points are the hallmark of the Solutrean culture of France and the Iberian Peninsula, about 22,000 to 17,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last Ice Age. Some examples are so thin and large that archaeologists think they may have b…

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