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Inquiry into Mesolithic hafting-technology – An exceptional miniature “T-shaped” axe from Friesack, Brandenburg

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The paper presents novel insights on „T-shaped“ axes made from red deer antler, with a particular emphasis on a miniature from the Late Mesolithic phase of the Friesack site (Germany). Used as an efficient tooling, it presents same morpho-technical patterns as the Ertebølle-related „T-shaped“ axes recently found in the eastern part of Pomerania. All these axes display a similar shaft-hole that suggests use of a common hafting-system, regardless the cultural Mesolithic context, then. Compared to Neolithic less-refine but resembling products, these Mesolithic implements are in this way particularly recognizable, although in both contexts all „T-shaped“ axes were used similarly, as heavy-duty tools. Thus, the know how implied in manufacturing the implement as a whole appears as a mean to identify distinct types of „T-shaped“ axes and, so, distinctive cultural origin of the axes in regional assemblages. The technology displayed by the miniature from Friesack is examined here, to continue establishing the industrial conceptions and dynamics involved in postglacial technologies.
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hal-03888554 , version 1 (07-12-2022)

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Éva David. Inquiry into Mesolithic hafting-technology – An exceptional miniature “T-shaped” axe from Friesack, Brandenburg. Michael Baales; Clemens Pasda. All der holden Hügel ist keiner mir fremd.. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Claus-Joachim Kind, Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie Aus dem Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie der Universität Jena (327), Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH, pp.479-484, 2022, 978-3-7749-4180-9. ⟨hal-03888554⟩
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