Hammer ax
Hammer axes (also known as “Common European hammer axes” or A-axes) are made of rock, mostly diabase , diorite , porphyry or granite . They have a cutting edge at one end while the other end forms a flat face. Presumably they originated between 4200 and 4000 BC. In the Aichbühler group in Upper Swabia .
Hammer axes are found in many European cultures. In the individual grave culture (2800–2300 BC) they are called battle axes and in the boat ax culture in Scandinavia because of their similar shape they are called boat axes. They differ in the round, square or kinked widening of the shaft hole upwards and more or less drawn down cutting edges and neck. The necks are round and rounded in the shape of buttons or blades. The hammer axes of the corded ceramists , mostly with rounded edges, were also made of copper . There are also the stone pieces found in Aplerbeck with an imitation cast seam.
The pickaxe is the outline of a descendant of the "common European Hammeraxt".
literature
- Emil Hoffmann: Lexicon of the Stone Age. Munich 1999, p. 202, ISBN 3-406-42125-3 .