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Two Holy Land Neolithic Stone Ax Heads
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Ancient World:
Holy Land:
Pre AD 1000 item# 725032 (stock# 1458)
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Griffin Gallery Ancient Art
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Two Neolithic Stone Ax Heads from the Holy Land, ca. 6000 BCE, found in Jerusalem. The polished Neolithic ax, a heavy implement, was in sharp contrast to the delicate small-rock work of the last stages of the Paleolithic Period and was a reversal of the traditions of products that had yielded ever more lineal feet of cutting edge per pound of stone. The ax and its companion the adz met the need to clear land as agriculture developed as an efficient tree-cutting tool. It may have been used as a w ...click for details
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