143 Hamburg-Ohlsdorf
This double-edged stone axe, more than 5,000 years old, came to light in the Ohlsdorf cemetery near the crematorium. Double axes were usually very carefully crafted from selected stones. They were not weapons, but had the sole function of increasing the prestige of their owner. Since antiquity, double axes have been regarded, among other things, as a symbol of the legendary Amazons, which is why archaeologists use the term Amazon axe for these Neolithic axes.
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Amazon Axe
Age: 4.000 - 2.800 v. Chr. Neolithic period
Neolithic period: In the Neolithic period, people began for the first time to actively shape and change their environment: sedentarisation was one of the essential prerequisites for civilisational progress. Farmers cleared forests for their settlements, fields and for keeping livestock. They built their farms out of wooden posts, wattle and daub and clay. Cattle, pigs, goats and sheep are recorded as domestic animals. The diet of the people was now enriched by cereals such as wheat and barley, which were cultivated on farmland.
Material: Stone
Location: HH-Ohlsdorf