Stone age axe found with wood handle

BBC ^ | 11/25/2014 | N/A

[Natufian]

Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered an incredibly rare find: a stone age axe held within its wooden handle. The 5,500-year-old Neolithic axe was found during archaeological surveys ahead of a multi-billion euro tunnel project. The axe seems to have been jammed into what was once the seabed, perhaps as part of a ritual offering. The lack of oxygen in the clay ground helped preserve the wooden handle.

[Natufian]

Amazing preservation. Looks like it was made yesterday.

[Natufian]

Ping!

[Sacajaweau]

And they speculate part of a spiritual offering?? Wow....talk about imagination......Must be the same guys speculating on global warming.

[TalBlack]

If some caveman jammed that tool in that position into that clay...he was a lad you wouldn’t want to mess with.

[R. Scott]

No fast food joints or video games back then.

[Daffynition]

[PIF]

This one not the other

[4yearlurker]

The handle looks like yellow or hard pine to me.

[untwist]

They were able to verify the age because it was stamped 3500 BC on the bottom.

[Lazamataz]

I’d hit it.

[twister881]

In a related story, artifacts from the period and identified as gay sex aids belonging to Bjørk Øbama were discovered adjacent to the axe.

[eartrumpet]

You think it’s old growth?

[Gadsden1st]

She looks pretty old to me, but Laz would still hit her.

[Nifster]

was the other stamp ‘made in China’?

[Joe 6-pack]

Good thing it wasn’t found in the UK. I think edged weapons are banned there.

[4yearlurker]

I relly don’t know. Whatever Lowes was selling at the time.

[ExCTCitizen]

Wait the hammer said: ‘Stanley Black and Decker New Britain, CT Made in China’

[Natufian]

Not too far from the truth, they probably used dendrochronology as one of the dating techniques.

[DPMD]

Definitely not morning wood.

[minnesota_bound]

Some kids dad lost his axe and wondered what happen to it. He looked at his sons and they said “I dunno what happen to that axe....”