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    Author: * Desdemona Eurimedon - 1 Post on this thread out of 2,030 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Mar 23, 2006 - 09:40

    The most common find in the last days of the Stone Age was the common axe, which have been found by the thousands in Svealand and Götaland in Sweden. Or in other words, the east and western areas of middle Sweden, although this tools were also quiet widespread in Norrland, that is the north of Sweden.

    In south Scandinavia these stone axes came to have a partially different expansion then the flint axes.
    Regional traditions or simply the lack of flint in the southern parts of Scandinavia was the probable reason for this. As for stone axe finds, most of the finds that have been discovered have come from over ploughed graves.

    Alongside this axes another great master piece of this time, however small in size, was the small heart shaped arrow head with flattened bas.

    These would often be found in graves alongside, or in proximity, to flint axes that would in time develop into a more belt-shaped edge to better resemble the imported metallic axe blades that were brought in from west and central Europe.

    As a side note it should named that other objects found in graves as the ones mentioned above were barbed tools, also made out of flint, and lance heads.


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