
The name ''Battle-axe people'' (''corded ware culture'') identifies widely-scattered late Neolithic sites in Europe (3rd millennium BCE). Burial sites containing the characteristic corded ware, impressed with cords in the unfired clay, are known in a wide area in Northern Europe, Central Europe and Western Europe: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, northwest Germany, Denmark and southern parts of Norway and Sweden. Little is known of them. The name comes from the perforated cast copper battle-axes of a particular double-bladed form that are found at archeology sites associated with them. Their successors, the Beaker culture— if they were in fact a separate people— copied the new axehead types in stone, but everywhere the arrival of the 'battle-axe' or 'corded-ware' cultures mark the phasing out of the Neolithic. Linguistic controversy surrounds the people whose burial sites have been found, whether they spoke an Indo-European language or if their language was a Pre-Indo-European language, which (due to contact with Indo-European nomads) supplied the Germanic substrate hypothesis, and even whether a change of pottery type or burying technique indicate a migration of people or merely the adoption of ideas. Less controversial innovative features that distinguish the 'Battle-axe culture' from the later 'Beaker culture' that it infiltrated or simply superseded are the practice of burying the dead singly (instead of in megalithic group burials) under round tumuli enclosing a wooden mortuary house (a widespread practice), with grave goods. For the first time in Europe, the bones of a domesticated horse are found in connection with the sites: the Tarpan, a forest pony that was native to Europe, but has been extinct since 1876. It is possible that wheeled carts were used in the corded ware culture. See also: Swedish-Norwegian Battle-axe culture, Snow-Ceramic culture Ancient peoples Archaeological cultures
The apocryphal story about the origins of the Celts is that the battle-axe people met the "beer-brewing people" and that the end result was a bunch of axe-swinging, beer-swilling... well you get the picture. This is amusing and probably not totally false, as apparently beer brewing began in Sumeria.
Is there any particular reason why most of the last paragraph of this page is written using almost exclusively English words of native origin? I mean, I think it's cool, but I don't quite get the point of it. :When I wrote the first take on this page, I chose to try to write it in Ander-Saxon, a sort of constrained writing that uses only words of English birth, shunning Latin and French words. -- User:Ihcoyc 12:32, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC) Why are the battle-axe people Neolithic and not Chalcolithic? User:Adamsan 12:32, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC) : mainly because the term chalcolithic is not commonly used in Scandianavia, but mainly in south-east Europe. If you define chalcolithic by copper-use, then the TBK (=early neolithic) would already be chalcolithic, which is a bit confusing. All in all, I think the term chalcolithic only creates confusion (different local traditions of usage), but that is a strictly personal view.--User:Yak 13:20, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::Ah I see, thanks. It was the thing about them following the Beakers that really threw me. Have you any dates for this lot so I can compare them to Western European chronologies? Is the TBK the same as the TRB (Funnel Beaker) culture? I think we need an article on them although I don't even know what to call them. User:Adamsan 16:52, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC) :::sorry, TBK is funnelbeaker-culture (Trichterbecher...). This "following the beakers" in nonsense in most areas, as the distributions don't overlap except in Switzerland and part of Germany. This article presents a confusing mixture of not always up to date archaeology and linguistic speculations, maybe we should try to keep them better apart. A good list of 14-C dates: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/ggeo/jungsteinzeit/radon/radon.htm (download, Access-format) --User:Yak 13:37, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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The name ''Battle-axe people'' (''corded ware culture'') identifies widely-scattered late Neolithic sites in Europe (3rd millennium BCE). Burial sites containing the characteristic corded ware, impressed with cords in the unfired clay, are known in a wide area in Northern Europe, Central Europe and Western Europe: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, northwest Germany, Denmark and southern parts of Norway and Sweden. Little is known of them. The name comes from the perforated cast copper battle-axes of a particular double-bladed form that are found at archeology sites associated with them. Their successors, the Beaker culture— if they were in fact a separate people— copied the new axehead types in stone, but everywhere the arrival of the 'battle-axe' or 'corded-ware' cultures mark the phasing out of the Neolithic. Linguistic controversy surrounds the people whose burial sites have been found, whether they spoke an Indo-European language or if their language was a Pre-Indo-European language, which (due to contact with Indo-European nomads) supplied the Germanic substrate hypothesis, and even whether a change of pottery type or burying technique indicate a migration of people or merely the adoption of ideas. Less controversial innovative features that distinguish the 'Battle-axe culture' from the later 'Beaker culture' that it infiltrated or simply superseded are the practice of burying the dead singly (instead of in megalithic group burials) under round tumuli enclosing a wooden mortuary house (a widespread practice), with grave goods. For the first time in Europe, the bones of a domesticated horse are found in connection with the sites: the Tarpan, a forest pony that was native to Europe, but has been extinct since 1876. It is possible that wheeled carts were used in the corded ware culture. See also: Swedish-Norwegian Battle-axe culture, Snow-Ceramic culture Ancient peoples Archaeological cultures
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The apocryphal story about the origins of the Celts is that the battle-axe people met the "beer-brewing people" and that the end result was a bunch of axe-swinging, beer-swilling... well you get the picture. This is amusing and probably not totally false, as apparently beer brewing began in Sumeria.
Is there any particular reason why most of the last paragraph of this page is written using almost exclusively English words of native origin? I mean, I think it's cool, but I don't quite get the point of it. :When I wrote the first take on this page, I chose to try to write it in Ander-Saxon, a sort of constrained writing that uses only words of English birth, shunning Latin and French words. -- User:Ihcoyc 12:32, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC) Why are the battle-axe people Neolithic and not Chalcolithic? User:Adamsan 12:32, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC) : mainly because the term chalcolithic is not commonly used in Scandianavia, but mainly in south-east Europe. If you define chalcolithic by copper-use, then the TBK (=early neolithic) would already be chalcolithic, which is a bit confusing. All in all, I think the term chalcolithic only creates confusion (different local traditions of usage), but that is a strictly personal view.--User:Yak 13:20, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::Ah I see, thanks. It was the thing about them following the Beakers that really threw me. Have you any dates for this lot so I can compare them to Western European chronologies? Is the TBK the same as the TRB (Funnel Beaker) culture? I think we need an article on them although I don't even know what to call them. User:Adamsan 16:52, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC) :::sorry, TBK is funnelbeaker-culture (Trichterbecher...). This "following the beakers" in nonsense in most areas, as the distributions don't overlap except in Switzerland and part of Germany. This article presents a confusing mixture of not always up to date archaeology and linguistic speculations, maybe we should try to keep them better apart. A good list of 14-C dates: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/ggeo/jungsteinzeit/radon/radon.htm (download, Access-format) --User:Yak 13:37, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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