4600Y. O: TERRIFIC AX ADZE 142mms DANISH STONE AGE NEOLITHIC FLINT SINGLE GRAVE C
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:38710 | Material: Stone |
| Provenance: Ownership History Available |
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This wonderful shaped flint ( silex ) artifact is a
"Thick Butted Concave Adze ( Ax Axe ) Kregme - type",
belonging to the Single Grave Culture, 2800-2400 bc and
the early partof the Dagger Culture 2400-1800 bc.
Wonderful patinated marble-like flint!
A picture of a changing lifestyle emerges with the finds from the Single Grave Culture (th...e period 2800-2400 BC). The ritualistic existence of earlier communities seems to have disappeared. Our knowledge of this period is almost exclusively based on discoveries from grave mounds, where 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
where people lived mainly by fishing, hunting and sealing.
Thick-butted axes with concave cutting edge
occur in single graves in East Jutland, and in a considerable numberof dolmen and passage graves both there and on the islands, in suchcases often being found in association with objects belonging to the East Danish Single-Grave Culture. Are in addition found in votivedeposits, often together with thin-bladed axes and chisels withconcave cutting edge, while a few specimens are known from settlementsites of the Passage-Grave Culture, though never in undisturbed layers.They occur on the islands and in North and East Jutland but seldom in the central area of the Jutland Single-Grave Culture.They appear as a new type of unknown reason.
The longitudinal section at Kregme-type adzes is v-formed.
These kind of axes were handled transverse as adzes.
Regular rectangular cross section at the butt-end.
Provenance is an old collection.
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artifact from the European Younger Stone Age.
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