Neolithic Stone Battle Axe Germany X-RARE Engraved, Boat Shaped c. 2800-2400 BC

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Neolithic Stone Battle Axe
X-RARE Engraved, Boat Shaped Axe
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:
9.5 oz. (270 gr.)
Measurements:
94 mm x 49 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, with a RARE angular petroglyph decoration on one side of the axe.
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.
This broken, Neolithic Stone Age artifact is a polished and carved battleaxe with a cut seam for attachment to a wooden handle.
The battleaxe 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
.
What makes this particular battle axe unique, is a petroglyph that has been carved into the pointed end of the battle axe.
I have been unable to find another example, even in the vast collection of axes at the National Museum of Denmark.
The curved and pointed shape of the carving suggests it may have been meant to symbolize a boat.
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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