Nice one, thanks for the shout out. These stone battle axes were developed after and copied the form of the the cast copper / bronze axes of southeast Europe. The "boat axe" design of Scandinavia was a specific regional type but the stone battle axe, often with the replica casting seam, was seen throughout the Corded Ware culture Horizon. This means it is a replica casting seam and not meant to represent a boat keel. The earliest examples of these stone axes are far more triangular / wedge shaped and closely resemble the form of the specific copper axe type they replicate. Some of the most spectacular, highly polished examples come from central Europe and as well as being weapons were status symbols meant to impress. The shaft hole drilled through stone was also a late European Neolithic innovation, where earlier Neolithic polished stone axes were fixed through thick wooden shafts instead. On the Neolithic steppe, they also developed a weapon type called Horse Head Maces, which were basically stone war hammers but carved into shapes resembling horses heads. Some people theorise these were attached to long shafts and were swung by horse riding warriors but we don't know if that's actually true.
That boat shaped head looks very similar to my quarry buster hammer. Would do a fine job tracing rough face and sawn slabs for splitting. No doubt about it. Great in-depth tool spotlight, keep em coming SGD. !
The name ”boat ax” is as far as I know a modern name of a class of stone axes with a curvature that resembles of a boat, i.e. they were not made with an attention to look at a boat. So those casting lines are not keels, they are merely the tool makers responce to the (at that time) modern bronze axes that came from south east europe. As mentioned in the video, the bronze axes had lines (actually imperfections) from the casting process. The craftsmen in the north who were still working with stone only, had most likely no idea what those lines were for. They just wanted to show that ”we can make axes just as fine as those novel imported ones”.
my idea for the loop on the top of the bronze axe that needed the handle to be inserted into the axe is it was a loop for attaching a leather string so that in the heat of the battle a axe that came dislodged from the handle would not be lost in the weeds or leaves, same thing as otiz's string on his flint knife, it was to be wrapped around a finger and twisted to prevent the stone blade from being dropped resulting a broke point,I am a flintknapper and understand this law of stone very well. the loop on the top of the bronze age axe is for a string to be tied to recover the axe head in the event of a seperation of the handle
The haft of an axe or hatchet breaks most often when pulling them out after they've got wedged in a piece of wood... since there's a lot of leverage placed at the intersection between head and haft - particularly for these kind of hafts - the haft of a modern (felling) axe widens before the joint with the head to reduce the chance of it breaking there in that circumstance... so a line running down diagonally from that loop creating a triangle between the head and handle to alleviate the strain at the joint between head and haft would be an effective and quite necessary addition to the design. Mmm.
@@SacredGeometryDecoded I went to that quarry by the way... pretty but unremarkable - just naturally cleaved off pieces, not a tool-mark of any description to be seen. ...So I didn't take any footage. The altar stone in the middle of Stone Henge has a couple of scoop marks on its back so I rather had my hopes up but alas not a sausage... nor a sausage impression of any sort, not a weener even. Flaming illusive b******s!
Just watched the video "HOW Obelisks Were MOVED From Egypt To Rome & Beyond" on the channel "the channel 'Logic, Archeologic Video". Nice video about Romans moving large stones. Gave you a shoutout in the comments. I am spamming your channel, hehe. I want the LAHT cult to become lost.
Ambiguous flood myths be damned. If you pointed at a phallic Atlantian cult which sent their missionaries around to the world to spread the worship of the all mighty schlong. That might convince me. 😂
The notched seaming by the eye is to grip rope, strappjng, or wire that is bound around where the handle meets the hole (haft) this adds extra stability, aids recovery in case head pops off and these windings at the haft protect the handle neck from getting mashed from slight misses or too deep of penetration into wood (or bones lol)
Nice one, thanks for the shout out. These stone battle axes were developed after and copied the form of the the cast copper / bronze axes of southeast Europe. The "boat axe" design of Scandinavia was a specific regional type but the stone battle axe, often with the replica casting seam, was seen throughout the Corded Ware culture Horizon. This means it is a replica casting seam and not meant to represent a boat keel. The earliest examples of these stone axes are far more triangular / wedge shaped and closely resemble the form of the specific copper axe type they replicate. Some of the most spectacular, highly polished examples come from central Europe and as well as being weapons were status symbols meant to impress. The shaft hole drilled through stone was also a late European Neolithic innovation, where earlier Neolithic polished stone axes were fixed through thick wooden shafts instead. On the Neolithic steppe, they also developed a weapon type called Horse Head Maces, which were basically stone war hammers but carved into shapes resembling horses heads. Some people theorise these were attached to long shafts and were swung by horse riding warriors but we don't know if that's actually true.
Cheerrs, at the very start i showed three types. The top one does look very horse headish now that you say it.
That boat shaped head looks very similar to my quarry buster hammer. Would do a fine job tracing rough face and sawn slabs for splitting. No doubt about it. Great in-depth tool spotlight, keep em coming SGD. !
The name ”boat ax” is as far as I know a modern name of a class of stone axes with a curvature that resembles of a boat, i.e. they were not made with an attention to look at a boat. So those casting lines are not keels, they are merely the tool makers responce to the (at that time) modern bronze axes that came from south east europe. As mentioned in the video, the bronze axes had lines (actually imperfections) from the casting process. The craftsmen in the north who were still working with stone only, had most likely no idea what those lines were for. They just wanted to show that ”we can make axes just as fine as those novel imported ones”.
Was just at my local museeum here in Sweden and looked at a couple of these boat shaped axes, nice synchronicity.
my idea for the loop on the top of the bronze axe that needed the handle to be inserted into the axe is it was a loop for attaching a leather string so that in the heat of the battle a axe that came dislodged from the handle would not be lost in the weeds or leaves, same thing as otiz's string on his flint knife, it was to be wrapped around a finger and twisted to prevent the stone blade from being dropped resulting a broke point,I am a flintknapper and understand this law of stone very well. the loop on the top of the bronze age axe is for a string to be tied to recover the axe head in the event of a seperation of the handle
Great video. I am in awe of the time and skill required to make such tools.
my first thought was it looked like a casting line
The haft of an axe or hatchet breaks most often when pulling them out after they've got wedged in a piece of wood... since there's a lot of leverage placed at the intersection between head and haft - particularly for these kind of hafts - the haft of a modern (felling) axe widens before the joint with the head to reduce the chance of it breaking there in that circumstance... so a line running down diagonally from that loop creating a triangle between the head and handle to alleviate the strain at the joint between head and haft would be an effective and quite necessary addition to the design.
Mmm.
tying things to sticks :-) Knots are becoming lost technology
@@SacredGeometryDecoded I went to that quarry by the way... pretty but unremarkable - just naturally cleaved off pieces, not a tool-mark of any description to be seen. ...So I didn't take any footage. The altar stone in the middle of Stone Henge has a couple of scoop marks on its back so I rather had my hopes up but alas not a sausage... nor a sausage impression of any sort, not a weener even. Flaming illusive b******s!
that mug handle thing on the bronze axe heads was abandoned after the socket and rivets were invented
Somethingsomething ancient Atlantean crystal sonic resonance devices! Because why would people use power tools and CNC machines to make stone axes? 😂
They used Sandvik diamond tipped drillbits to make the holes. How else could they have made them? Hmm🧐
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@@SacredGeometryDecoded Best ball bearings in the world 👍
Drilled through using diamond tipped antigravity, with a feed rate of 500 meters per revolution, powered by chanting Smurfs.
It's the only reasonable explanation.
A comment for the algorithm. SGD on point again
the Mitchell and Webb sketch is 10/10 😆❤
In Finland we call those as "hammeraxes". Hammeraxe culture, etc.
Pretty much all of Europe is full of neolithic basalt axes.
Just watched the video "HOW Obelisks Were MOVED From Egypt To Rome & Beyond" on the channel "the channel 'Logic, Archeologic Video". Nice video about Romans moving large stones. Gave you a shoutout in the comments. I am spamming your channel, hehe. I want the LAHT cult to become lost.
Ambiguous flood myths be damned. If you pointed at a phallic Atlantian cult which sent their missionaries around to the world to spread the worship of the all mighty schlong. That might convince me. 😂
So... Aliens??? Lol
Why chisel a seam? Lot's of work for no functional gain. That's anti-logical.
The notched seaming by the eye is to grip rope, strappjng, or wire that is bound around where the handle meets the hole (haft) this adds extra stability, aids recovery in case head pops off and these windings at the haft protect the handle neck from getting mashed from slight misses or too deep of penetration into wood (or bones lol)
Do everything have to be have functional purpose? Even these finely polished axes, which don't have a single mark of use.
@@ivan55599 If you follow the academian historians, the ancestors spent most of their time with ritualistic doings. I don't believe.
@ivan55599 tools tend to be functional over ornamental
What's the logic behind highly decorated Viking swords, or Saddam's gold plated AK:s?