ARROW POINT Transverse edge- arrow DANISH STONE AGE MESOLITHIC ERTEBOLLE Culture
$ 6.34
Description
ARROW POINT Transverse edge- arrow DANISH STONE AGE MESOLITHIC ERTEBOLLE Culture. Sweden, northern Germany and Poland. The Ertebolle people mainly lived from hunting, gathering, and fishing. The sides which may be parallel, but mostly diverge, and two shorter, sharp, mostly parallel sides, the longer one serving as a transverse edge on the arrow. This nice artifact is a "Transverse Arrow point" Dating Erteboelle Culture around 5500 B.c. Transversal arrow heads are formed by dividing a blade, slimsides are then worked with fine retouche. The sides which may be parallel, but mostly diverge, and two shorter, sharp, mostly parallel sides, the longer one serving as a transverse edge on the arrow. The Ertebolle culture is the last and most advanced of the Mesolithic cultures before the Neolithic. The center of the Ertebolle culture is in Denmark but these people also lived in southern Scandinavia, Sweden, northern Germany and Poland. The Ertebolle people mainly lived from hunting, gathering, and fishing, they used stone tools and left large piles of shells (Koekenmoeding ) at the beaches that are still there today, maybe the first humanmade pollution in the envirement with dump their waste! Provenance is an old collection. I guarantee absolutely for the authenticity of this rare item. Please view also my other auctions with relics from the Scandinavian Prehistory, Stone Age. Look my other sight: Stoneage-Scandinavia | eBay Stores
