Title: Large antique heavy tool gray stone bowl vessel carved Artifact
Shipping: $59.00
Artist: N/A
Period: Antiquity
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Origin: South America > Brazil
Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: N/A
Item ID: 4255
A large antique heavy hand carved stone Afghanistan, bowl. This is an extremely beautiful fine artifact tool. This was found in Afghanistan, with a cool looking stylistic motif. It makes for a very interesting display piece for a home. elaborately engraved and carved bowl. The writing on the bowl is unmistakably from the Old World. Bowls and jars were prevalent but in the wild most tools were made from stone and pottery, these creations were usually simple utilitarian vessels. This is unique because most vessels of this stone style are bottles or jars. By cutting fine, close and deep line incisions into the stone using a sharp tool. the vessel decoration took the form of line designs. This bowl was cut deep both inside and outside the vessel body by hand.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifact_%28archaeology%29
An artifact or artefact (from Latin phrase arte factum, from ars skill + facere to make) is "something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest". "Artifact" is the usual spelling in the US and Canada, "artefact" in the UK and Australasia (see spelling differences).
In archaeology, where the term is most commonly used, an artifact is an object recovered by some archaeological endeavor, which may have a cultural interest.
Examples include stone tools such as projectile points, pottery vessels, metal objects such as guns, and items of personal adornment such as buttons, jewellery and clothing. Other examples include bone that show signs of human modification, fire cracked rocks from a hearth or plant material used for food.
