GREAT BATTLE AX AXE RECYCLED 73mms STONE AGE NEOLITHIC 4th. - 3rd MILLENNIUM BC
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:44660 | Material: Stone |
| Provenance: Ownership History Available |
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This rare Neolithic stone artifact is a
recycled boat-shaped battle ax .
Polished at the broken part, showing that it was
recycled and used again as an axe with expanded cutting edge.
Belonging to the Middle European Neolithic.
In the Middle Neolithic Period a number of new customs make theirappearance in North and Central Europe.A feature of t...he people of the epoch is the stonebattleax which develops in the individual districts from a commonprototype into a series of local types. So characteristic for thesecultures is the battleax, being in all cases buried with the men, that the name of Battleax Cultures has been given to these groups.
The types of objects belonging to the battleax cultures are knownchiefly from graves: single graves, stone cists and secondary burialsin Dolmens and Passage-Graves.
Depending on the regions, the different cultural groups of this period
have different names : Single Grave Culture, Battl Axe culture,
Corded Ware Culture, Pit Grave Culture or Ochre Grave Culture.
Provenance is an old German collection.
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of thiswonderful Neolithic battle ax.
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