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The extraction of stone era artifacts included a highly decorative deer horns, which was turned into a handle of an ax.
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The discovery is extremely rare, according to experts and has probably served many applications.
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After use as an ax handle – and later harpoon – it is a victim of a ritual playground.
You could (and could) do a lot of deer horns during the day. By “back throughout the day” we mean about 5500 BC, of course – the period in which Antler recently discovered was used in different ways. Archaeologists discovered the horns within the Stone Age settlement, marking both its decorative threads and its use first as the handle for a combat ax, and later as a harpoon.
In a new study published in Oxford Journal of ArcheologyLeading author Lars Larson (Professor of Archeology at the University of Lund) and Fredrick Molin (an archeologist at the National History Museum of Sweden) emphasized “the richly decorated piece of Roga, probably part of the Horn ax” as the most receiving find among the huge inventory of the Kamen’s instruments of the instruments of Kamen’s instruments.
According to a horn study, when he originally found him a Stone Age craftsman, they first ground and smooth out P bjectbefore the carving of shallow ornaments. Later, this first layer of decorative threads was removed and replaced by a second, deeper motif, filled with diagonal lines.
Triangular shapes and patterns appeared at this time, Larson writes as targeted tips for spears -like rods. “They catch the eye because they are clearly different from other motives,” Larson said. “The motives certainly attract the eye.” The design channels were filled with dark, like tar.
Larson wrote that it was interesting how for some reason the original motif was grounded to make room for the new model, which was probably carved by several people. Parts of the decoration showed narrow diagonal hatching strips in the form of sloping lines-a well-known motif in the mesoline era. “However, it is clear that this ornamentation is done with a thin cutting edge,” Larson writes. “The degrees of precision, manners of performance and selection of motives in the short set of decorations suggest that more than one person has fulfilled it.”
Founded in the village of Stone Age Strandvagen in Motala-known as the Central Center for Groups of the Hunter-Fishing Call between 5800 and 5000 BC-E.-Parcheto is one of the hide and the instruments of more than 1400 artifacts. Many were left on a rock platform from the coastline of the village in a waterway leading to the Baltic Sea. The anthler, dated to about 5500 BC, was found among human skeletal parts and richly decorated objects, including 20 pieces of human skull, engraved animal bones and ax of ax.
The use of red deer horns is not common in Sweden, but when used, they usually served as a handle of an ax. While Larson writes that he cannot be sure that the ax offers a practical function, probably (at least) is an important symbolic or ritual piece. However, the signs point to the use of Antler in battle. Horn fracture models remain in line with a combat ax.
When Antler splits during use as an ax handle, he is not lost forever. “Subsequently, the ax was broken and transformed into another instrument, probably a harpoon, which is also finally fragmented,” Larson wrote. After Antler served his time as a harpoon – and when the owners could not find another use for the subject – he was sacrificed in a ritual zone and preserved in the water and rocky ground, giving archaeologists a look in the Swedish Stone Age life 75 years later.
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