6800Y.O: RARITY ROUND AX 116mms FIRST POLISHED EVER DANISH STONE AGE MESOLITHIC

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Seller: prehistoric.europe ✉️ (688) 100%, Location: Heidelberg, DE, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 145666310456 6800Y.O: RARITY ROUND AX 116mms FIRST POLISHED EVER DANISH STONE AGE MESOLITHIC. The butt is mainly round, but may be thinner or thicker or even pointed; the cross section of the butt is circular or oval. A view have been found on the sites of the Maglemose Culture, but the form belongs chiefly to the Ertebolle Culture, also its early part.

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This rare and precious authentic Mesolithic artifact is a "Round Ax (round butted ax)", belonging to the Ertebolle - Ellerbek Culture 5400-4000 bc. It is the very first type of polished axes ( adzes ). One of the first large Nordic cultures was the Ertebolle culture (also known as Ertebølle or Ellerbek), this culture came into existence at the end of the Mesolithic period around 5400 BC and lasted to 4000 BC. The center of the Ertebolle culture is believed to have been Denmark but this people also lived in southern Scandinavia, Finland, northern Germany and Poland, and the Netherlands, which was roughly the same area as where later the Funnelbeaker people and the Germans lived. The Ertebolle people mainly lived from hunting, gathering, and fishing, they used stone tools and left large piles of shells ( kitchen middens ) at the beaches that are still there today, the shells may have been left there as offerings to a seagod though a more plausible explanation is that they simply used such places to dump their waste. The Ertebolle culture probably also believed in an afterlife because they buried their dead in cemetaries with gravegifts, in Sweden archeologists have even found dog burials like for instance the one in Skateholm, the Ertebolle people also made woodcarvings and used canoes for fishing. Round axes of greenstone and formed by pecking (bruising with a pointed flint), then ground, sometimes over the entire surface, sometimes only part of it, but always at the cutting edge. The edge may be placed as a true ax or as an adze and it is often gouged. The butt is mainly round, but may be thinner or thicker or even pointed; the cross section of the butt is circular or oval. A view have been found on the sites of the Maglemose Culture, but the form belongs chiefly to the Ertebolle Culture, also its early part. Found in a number of kitchen midden. Common in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where they belong to an early phase of the Stone Age, before Neolithic time. Otherwise widespread in Europe: Fairly uncommon in Central Europe, though found in Holstein and Brandenburg; common in Western and Southern Europe. Related to the Early Neolithic Shoe-last celt ( German: Schuhleistenkeil ) from the Linear Pottery Culture ( Linearbandkeramik - Danubian I ). Provenance is an old collection. More details will follow the artifact. I guarantee absolutely for the authenticity of this first polished Hunter-Gatherer Stone Age ax adze. Please view also my other auctions with artifacts from the European Prehistory.

  • Primary Material: Stone
  • Brand: Flintstone
  • Provenance: Ownership History Available
  • Era: Prehistoric
  • Country/Region of Origin: Denmark
  • Color: Multi-Color
  • Style: Antique
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Material: Flint
  • Age: Neolithic & Paleolithic

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