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The cone club is an artefact from the Stone Age found in Europe and occurs north of the low mountain range from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic . In relation to hatchets and dechsle, cone and other clubs are rare. According to the shape and the degree of processing, a distinction is made between clubs

  • with and without a detached head
  • with and without a notch for attachment to the shaft .

The cones ( tapkøller in Danish ) with a notch (without a detached head) come from Northern Jutland in Denmark . They are found in bodies of water, graves and moors, but not in settlements . As with axes, hatchets and other club shapes, they are status symbols. With the help of associated flint axes and decorated ceramics, you can move into the middle phase of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) around 3500 to 3400 BC. To be dated. In Schleswig-Holstein , a find in the Schönberg district of California is the first evidence ever. So far only two complete specimens of the type (with detached head) are known.

The beach area of Schonberger district in California, east of Kiel , in the district of Plön , in Schleswig-Holstein for finds of the Mesolithic ertebølle culture (SFBC;.. 5500-4100 BC - eg T-shaped Geweihaxt.) And the Neolithic TBK (4100–2800 BC) known.

  • A rock ax found in 1997 about 200 m from the beach dates from the Neolithic Age. It lay in the sandy bottom between large stones in a water depth of 3.5 m. The double ax made of diabase of the Fredsgaard type comes from the middle section of the funnel beaker culture around 3200 BC. And is rare in Schleswig-Holstein.
  • The small, complete flint ax that was found in 2007 was also about 200 m from the beach 4 m deep in the water. It belongs to the thin-naped, thin-leaf type with a rectangular neck and dates to the late period of the TBK, around 2800 BC. Chr.
  • The 17.7 cm long, 4.5 cm wide and 2.2 cm thick cone club comes from the area around the cut flint ax. Apparently the cone club made of diabase sunk at the “Schönberg LA 7” site in the sea off California, as well as the two stone axes, are sacrificed individual pieces, as no settlement remains were noticed in the area. Similar victims are known from the coasts of Zealand and Jutland .

See also

literature

  • Sönke Hartz: Sacrifice for the gods? Cones from the Baltic Sea. In: Archeology in Germany , issue 2/2015, p. 5 ( PDF with picture)
  • Sönke Hartz: Submarine archaeological research in the Bay of Kiel. In: NAU - Nachrichtenblatt Arbeitskreis Unterwasserarchäologie, Volume 16, 2010, pp. 11–12 ( PDF with picture)
  • K. Ebbesen: Tidligneolitiske tapkøller ( early Neolithic cones). In: Aarbøger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie 1987, pp. 7–26

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At the time of the landfill the water level was different.