Battle Axe culture
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The Battle Axe culture, also called Boat Axe culture, is a Chalcolithic culture that flourished in the coastal areas of the south of the Scandinavian Peninsula and southwest Finland, from c. 2800 BC –
Battle Axe culture
Boat-shaped battle axe, characteristic of Scandinavian and coastal-German Corded Ware.
Battle Axe culture ceramics
Amber disk and beads from Denmark
Pitted Ware culture
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The Pitted Ware culture was a hunter-gatherer culture in southern Scandinavia, mainly along the coasts of Svealand, Götaland, Åland, north-eastern Denmark and southern Norway. Despite its Mesolithic e
Battle Axe culture
…for spreading Indo-European languages and other elements of Indo-European culture to the region. It co-existed for a time with the hunter-gatherer Pitted Ware culture, which it eventually absorbed, developing into the Nordic Bronze Age. The Nordic Bronze Age has, in turn, been considered ancestral to the Germanic…
Pitted Ware culture
"Thick-neck axe" from Närke (Sweden), a flintstone axe characteristic of both the Funnelbeaker and the Pitted Ware cultures.
Trindyxa (round stone axe), Gotland, Sweden
A pottery shard showing the characteristic pits, from Uppland, Sweden