6:31 PM PST, 3/6/2009
These Neolithic arrowheads, tools, scrapers, drills and points, were all discovered in the Sahara Desert and date back to somewhere between the beginning of the New Stone Age (10,000 years ago) and 3,000 years ago. Most of them were probably made between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago. As one expert (Chase) describes the area, it is the original melting pot of the Earth with the African cultures from the south and the Western cultures mixing in what is now the Sahara Desert region. As the agriculture of the west was introduced to the southern tribes, it created time for the master crafting of stone tools, points and a variety of beads and pottery. These are the result of that time and raw human skill.