April 26, 2024
4600Y.O:WONDERFUL DANISH NEOLITHIC FLINT AXE AX GLOSS!!
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NORTHERN EUROPEAN STONE AGE ARTIFACTS BY PALATINA AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEED Description This terrific and very rare Danish Neolithic flint ( silex )artifact is called "Thick Butted B-type ax ( axe ) with V-formed longitudinal section", belonging to the later part of the Single Grave Culture, 2800-2400 bc and the earliest part of the Dagger Culture 2400-1800 bc. A picture of a changing lifestyle emerges with the finds from the Single Grave Culture. The ritualistic existence of earlier communities seems to have disappeared. Our knowledge of this period is almost exclusively based on discoveries from grave mounds, w single graves indicate equal respect for both men and women. From this time onwards, carts were used for transport and large areas were cultivated. Settlements were also found near the coasts w people lived mainly by fishing, hunting and sealing. Thick-butted flint axes with a rectangular ross-section and a narrow, sometimes square butt-end. The sides are usually very carefully polished, was the edges and butt-end are often finely flat-flaked but unpolished. These axes are, on the whole, considerably smaller than the earlier thick-butted axes, sometimes being very small indeed. This wonderful beauty is 98 mms long. Terrific marble-like flint. Intensive polishing at the breadth-sides, partly polished at the small sides.
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