4400Y.O: WONDERFUL DAGGER 118mms LIGHTER DANISH STONE AGE NEOLITHIC FLINT SILEX

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Seller: prehistoric.europe ✉️ (691) 100%, Location: Heidelberg, DE, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 145692785423 4400Y.O: WONDERFUL DAGGER 118mms LIGHTER DANISH STONE AGE NEOLITHIC FLINT SILEX.

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This wonderful Neolithic flint artifact is a broken "Lanceolate Flint Dagger type I ". Interesting: The grinding-like marks of blows at the end of the hilt shows, that this dagger was also used as a " strike a light ", this is not unusual and a number of dagger-hilts show this special marks. During the Dagger-Culture it was not unusual to use daggers to make fire. The function, to make fire with daggers, was very deep rooted; the earlier Bronze Age strike-a-lights were still dagger-shaped, although flint daggers has been replaced by the bronze daggers. Belonging to the earlier part of the Dagger Culture 2400-1800 bc. This last period of the Stone Age, known as the Dagger period, coincided with the early Bronze Age in the British Isles and Central Europe. Weapons and tools made of copper and bronze were introduced and provided a challenge for those who made flint tools. The result can be seen in the excellent examples of imitations in flint of foreign bronze daggers. At the end of the period, the production of metal implements finally gained a foothold, and there is evidence of an emerging new social stratification. This is reflected in finds from settlements with both small and much larger long houses. Burial customs varied from simple interments below ground or in passage graves, to burials in stone cists or log coffins covered with large mounds. Daggers replaced the Battle Axes from the Single Grave Culture (2800-2400 bc) as status symbol. Because of the importance the period is called after that late Neolithic artifact. The chronological sequence of the individual types can be determined by the stratification of objects found in tumili containing single graves and in cists. The daggers of lanceolate form are the earliest types, the blade proceeding into the hilt without abrupt transition. Formerly misconceived as spearheads, the position of these lanceolate blades in graves shows, that they were the earliest dagger-types. Provenance is an old collection. More details will follow the artifact. I guarantee absolutely for the authenticity of this dagger from the Younger Stone Age. Please view also my other auctions with relics 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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