Neolithic Stone Axe from Ancient Germany c. 2800-2400 BC

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Neolithic Stone Axe from Ancient Germany
Jutland Single Grave Culture:
2800-2400 BC
c. 4,800 Years Old!
Item: Neolithic Flint Battle Axe, c. 4,800-Years-Old!
Material:
Gray Flint (Silex)
Weight:
5.2 oz. (147 gr.)
Measurements:
3.36" x 1.95" x 1.11" (85 mm x 50 mm x 28 mm)
Find Location:
Southern/South-West Germany.
Period:
Jutland Single Grave Culture: 2800-2400 BC
Condition:
Old damage and chips, beautiful symmetrical work and patination.
Provenance:
Old German private collection of Dr. Friedrich Moog, most likely in several previous collection(s).
Now in a private collection in Washington State, USA.
Reference:
The Collection of the National Museum of Denmark
- Prehistoric Denmark, Core Axes and Celts.
Details:
This broken, Neolithic Stone Age axe appears to have been repurposed as a scraper after it broke millennia ago.
The axe shows ancient use and is museum quality!
It dates to the period in early European history known today as the
Single Grave Culture, 2800-2400 BC
.
In the Middle Neolithic Period, several new customs made their appearance in North and Central Europe.
A feature of the people of the Single Grave Culture is the stone battleax, which develops in the individual districts from a common prototype into a series of local types. So characteristic for these cultures is the battleax, being in all cases buried with the men, that the name of Battleax Cultures has been given to these groups.
At an early point in the Middle Neolithic Period, the first battleax customs forced their way into Jutland and conquered the Western and Central areas of the peninsula. This people has been named the
Jutland
Single Grave Folk and their culture the Jutland Single Grave Culture on account of their custom, in contradistinction to the Passage Grave peoples, of burying their dead singly in graves.
Simultaneously, one of the battleax groups invaded Central Sweden, forming the Swedish boat-axe culture, and from there spread gradually southward until it too left its marks on Denmark. Later, comes an invasion of customs from the battleax descendants of various areas of North Germany, of the Islands and East Jutland, giving rise to the East Danish Single Grave culture, which had considerable influence on the course of cultural development from then on into Late Neolithic times.
The types of objects belonging to the battleax cultures are known chiefly from graves: single graves, stone cists and secondary burials in Dolmens and Passage-Graves.
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Ancient Scythian Ceremonial or Votive Axe
Square Socketed Iron Battle Axe
North-Iranian Saka and
Scythian
Peoples
400—700 AD
Item: Ancient Scythian Ceremonial or Votive Square-Socked Axe
Material: Iron
Length: 4” (104 mm)
Height:
2.12” 54 mm)
Weight: 6.5 oz. (184 gr.)
Civilization:
North-Iranian Saka and Scythian Peoples
Est. Date: 400—700 AD
Condition: This ancient Scythian artifact shows heavy oxidation/pitting and has been professionally cleaned, conserved, and treated with a special sealer developed and formulated to aid museums in ancient metal preservation.  It is protected by a museum approved, micro-crystalline wax by Renaissance Wax to reduce further oxidation.
The patina shows beautiful traits only found in authentic ancient weapons.
Ancient Weapons in Scythian History {Courtesy of WIKIPEDIA}
This small, ancient ceremonial iron axe head dates to about 400 AD to 700 AD.  This smaller size was intended for ceremonial or votive purposes and
not
made for or used in actual warfare.
It would have been offered in a ritual ceremony to the gods for a successful battle or perhaps entombed with a fallen warrior for his use in the afterlife.
Scythian Warriors and Weapons
According to Herodotus, the Scythians were ruthless and nearly invincible warriors who made cloaks from their victim’s scalps and drank from their skulls and sacrificed one out of every hundred prisoner of war. Wealthy Scythians reportedly gilded the insides of the skulls of their enemies and used them as drinking cups.
Scythians are credited with creating the first truly effective cavalry and employing tactics described as an ancient version of the
blitzkrieg
. They attacked their enemies on horseback and cut down their enemies with weapons shaped like this smaller, ritual example. They were difficult to fight against because they traveled swiftly on horseback and their nomadic ways made them difficult to attack and even find their base of operations.
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