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Item:1456663104566800Y.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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