10000Y.O:GREAT DANISH MESOLITHIC FLINT CORE BURIN BORER

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NORTHERN EUROPEAN STONE AGE ARTIFACTS BY PALATINA AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEED Description This extrem rare Stone Age artifact is called " Small core multipolar, trimmed to a borer or a burin ", from the Early Maglemose Culture 8900-6400 bc. After younger Dryas the climate became warmer. Soon the reindeer disappeared, the people of the wood now aimed at against game such as moose, aurochs, bear, roe deer and red deer. Arrowheads and the so-called microliths, was made from small flakes. To handle the wood, of which t was a plenty of in the new forests, the Maglemose Culture invented axes made of flint. The Maglemose Culture, which was named after settlements in the Maglemose bog at Mullerup in Western zealand, developed in the continental phase (pre-boreal and boreal), when present Denmark was part of the European continent and connected with England. Outside Southern Scandinavia Maglemose settlements are found in the North-Western European flatland from Poland, Northern Germany to England. Boats (presumably dugouts) played an important role in transport and in fishing, which had great importance for the hunters` economy. From the inland settlements heavy fishing hooks and leisters indicates intensive fishing after for instance wels and pike. The most of settlements were situated on peninsulas and islands in the great lakes of that read more

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