Disk ax

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Disc ax from the clam heap at Sölager, Denmark

A disc ax ( French tranchet ) is a Mesolithic and Neolithic device form Northern Europe. It is an unpolished flint ax that is made from a cut , in contrast to the core ax , which consists of a core. It was probably the most dechselartig scarfed .

distribution

Disc axes can be found in the Fosna , Komsa , Maglemose , Ertebølle-Ellerbeck cultures and the Funnel Beaker culture , as well as in the late Mesolithic Lietzow culture on the Baltic coast, but also in Larnian in Northern Ireland and in the French Chasséen . In other parts of the world, too, there are axes from tees. B. the Australian Tula-adzes or Tula-slugs, technically speaking, disc axes . Formation of variants in ax axes of the Ertebølle culture have been determined in Baltic Sealand, where three variants formed.

Hermann Schwabedissen defined a late Mesolithic disc ax circle, which includes the Oldesloer Group , the Duvensee Group and the Boberger Group in southern Lower Saxony . The Westphalian Haltern Group , on the other hand, is free of axles.

use

Presumably, both core and disc axes were used for woodworking, as Gramsch was able to demonstrate based on signs of use.

literature

  • Bernhard Gramsch : The Mesolithic in the lowlands between the Elbe and Oder. Publications of the Museum for Pre- and Early History Potsdam, Volume 7 (Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1973).
  • Roger M. Jacobi : Aspects of the "Mesolithic Age" in Great Britain. In: Stefan Karol Kozłowski (Ed.): The Mesolithic in Europe. International Archaeological Symposium on the Mesolithic in Europe. Warsaw, 7.-12. May 1973 (Warsaw 1973), 238-265.
  • Stefan Karol Kozłowski : Atlas of the Mesolithic in Europe: first generation maps. (Press service of the University of Warsaw 1980). (Distribution)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry Cunliffe: Illustrated Pre- and Early History of Europe 1996 p. 145
  2. ↑ Hermann Schwabedissen: The Middle Stone Age in western northern Germany. Neumünster 1944
  3. ↑ Bernhard Gramsch, signs of wear on mesolithic core and disc axes. Excavations and Finds 11, 1966, 109-114

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