April 26, 2024
4400Y.O: GORGEOUS DANISH NEOLITHIC FLINT DAGGER TYPE I
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NORTHERN EUROPEAN STONE AGE ARTIFACTS BY PALATINA AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEED Description This outstanding Neolithic flint artifact is called "Lanceolate Flint Dagger type I ", belonging to the earlier part of the Dagger Culture 2400-1800 bc. This last period of the Stone Age, known as the Dagger period, coincided with the early Bronze Age in the British Isles and Central Europe. Weapons and tools made of copper and bronze were introduced and provided a challenge for those who made flint tools. The result can be seen in the excellent examples of imitations in flint of foreign bronze daggers. At the end of the period, the production of metal implements finally gained a foothold, and t is evidence of an emerging new social stratification. This is reflected in finds from settlements with both small and much larger long houses. Burial customs varied from simple interments below ground or in passage graves, to burials in stone cists or log coffins covered with large mounds. Daggers replaced the Battle Axes from the Single Grave Culture (2800-2400 bc) as status symbol. Because of the importance the period is called after that late Neolithic artifact. The chronological sequence of the individual types can be determined by the stratification of objects found in tumili containing single graves and in cists. The daggers of lanceolate form
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