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CHOICE SET OF 2 UNUSUAL EUROPEAN NEOLITHIC TOOLS WITH A UNDERSIDE-SHARPENED KNIFE AND PLANER (RABOT) Sebjerg, Isle of Funen, Denmark EARLY NEOLITHIC PERIOD (FUNNEL-NECKED BEAKER CULTURE): 6000 - 5400 years ago This set of genuine European Neolithic flint artifacts was collected from an Early Neolithic Period settlement site once inhabited by people of the Funnel-Necked Beaker Pottery Culture of Northern Europe. It was fashioned and utilized between 6000 and 5400 years ago. This is a pair of very impressive and unusual European Neolithic tools - a UNDERSIDE-SHARPENED BLADE and a PLANER (RABOT). The blade is huge and robust and the heavy use and reuse caused its former Neolithic owner to sharpen it by flaking the UNDERSIDE rather than the conventional top of the blade flake. Even the proximal end where it was held has been meticulously retouched to make it more comfortable in hand without sharp edges!!! This is real master work!!! The other tool is a planer which is one of the rarest scrapers in any lithic period or culture. This one has the classic steeply retouched edge, flat base for pushing and made on a thick flake for strength. These were used to shave down and smooth organic material like wood, bone or ivory. This scraper could have also been used for small de-fleshing jobs on hides. Both show superb ancient re-sharpening and use wear. Original ground minerals and sediment still intact in hinge fractures - an indicator ONLY seen in AUTHENTIC specimens. The flint has been patinated by thousands of years of exposure to a water and peat environment. This fine set represents supreme examples of workmanship of a skilled tool maker from the earliest of north Europe's farming society. NO REPAIR AND NO RESTORATION. Genuine tools from the Funnel-Necked Beaker Pottery Culture are seldom available for public sale and represent an excellent opportunity to acquire a genuine stone tool artifact from some of the world's first farming peoples! The earliest food-producing communities of Northern Europe belonged to the Funnel-Necked Beaker Pottery Culture. This culture existed from 6200 to 4800 years ago in the Northern-most European region. The pottery produced by these earliest farmers had a distinctive necked design. The first use of the PLOW, ANIMAL TRACTION and WHEELED TRANSPORT in north-central Europe is attributed to this Neolithic culture. Megalithic chambered tombs were employed and built into long mounds. These mounds made by the Funnel-Necked Beaker peoples still stand today in many parts of north Europe. Farming in northern and central Europe differed from that of the more temperate southern regions of Europe, the Middle East and north Africa. The harsh winters required crops to be sown in the Spring as opposed to the Fall for the latter. Woodland grazing in the north meant more emphasis on the raising of cattle and pigs compared to the herds of sheep and goats popular in the south. Neolithic settlements were typically small in population with only about forty to sixty people. The wooden longhouse was the main type of building which housed both people and their livestock. Postholes are all that remain today leaving burials and ritual stone structures as the only remnants of this period. Neolithic burials were either individual or communal. The communal burials were housed in large megalithic structures which were then covered with earth creating a giant mound. Offerings of stone tools, pottery and ornaments were often included in burials. The Neolithic people of the Funnel-Necked Beaker Pottery Culture represented the first farming and stock-herding society in Northern Europe. TWO SUPREME EXAMPLES OF A EUROPEAN NEOLITHIC HEAVILY USED KNIFE AND PLANER - FINEST ALL THE WAY AND LARGE!!! 4" and 2.5" in lengths $395 N116 INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX Actual Item - One Only |
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