Shank-head needle
Shank-headed needles , also known as Aunjetitz needles , are clothes needles. They are a key form of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture , but also occur in other areas. They occur mainly in Bohemia, but are common in the central Saale region. The mostly conical nail-shaped head has an attached eyelet. The needle is often curved in the shape of a saber, the shaft can be decorated. The material was mostly bronze , more rarely gold , as in the Leubinger Hügel . They were used to fasten clothes. An undecorated shank-headed needle comes from a grave in Schiepzig , the upper end of which is coated with a putty-like compound; it may have been reused as a tool.
literature
- Emil Hoffmann: Lexicon of the Stone Age. Beck, Munich 1999. ISBN 3-406-42125-3
Web links
- Graves of chiefs of the Aunjetitz culture (2200 - 1800 BC) on Archeology Online
- An Aunjetitz grave with bronzes from Schiepzig, Ldkr.Saalekreis, State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, including a picture (Fig. 8)
- Archeology on the Plassenburg, Kulmbach, illustration of several needles
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Moser, Aunjetitz grave with bronzes from Schiepzig, Ldkr. Saalekreis. State Museum for Prehistory Halle, Find of the Month, July 2008. http://www.lda-lsa.de/landesmuseum_fuer_vorgeschichte/fund_des_monats/2008/juli/
- ↑ Andrea Moser, Aunjetitz grave with bronzes from Schiepzig, Ldkr. Saalekreis. State Museum for Prehistory Halle, Find of the Month, July 2008. http://www.lda-lsa.de/landesmuseum_fuer_vorgeschichte/fund_des_monats/2008/juli/