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THBChalcolithic Fatyanovo-Balanovo Stone Axe Heads
Lot 74
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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**Originally Listed At $900**
Eastern Europe, western Russia, Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture, Chalcolithic to early Bronze Age, ca. 2900 to 2050 BCE. An impressively rare pair of intimidating stone axe heads: a larger one of black stone and a gray stone bit and blade. The larger displays a distinctive shape of a knob-shaped butt, a swollen mid-section, a curved edge with a rounded beard, and a raised crest along the top. Alternatively, the more petite weapon presents 4 sides that taper to an arched edge with an annular socket hole vertically piercing the other end. Fatyanovo sites are characterized by finds of ceramics with ‘corded’ ornamentation, and of weaponry such as battle-axes like these examples. Size of larger: 9.1" L x 3" W (23.1 cm x 7.6 cm)
It seems to have been a funerary tradition to inter a battle-axe in men’s burials. During the mid-3rd millennium BCE, tribes of this ‘battle-axe’ culture began migrating eastwards along river valleys – either conflicting, or living peaceably with local tribes – hunters, fishermen, and gatherers – who had lived there previously, such as tribes of the Volovo culture. The Fatyanovo people were the first to first to raise cattle in the forest zones of the Russian plains, and to practice slash-and-burn agriculture, or to engage in metal-working with copper and bronze. Later, three millennia ago, the Fatyanovo people disappeared – dispersed among the tribes of the Volga & Oka intersection.
Provenance: private Englewood, Colorado USA collection
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#175996Larger is professionally repaired with some chipping and overpainting along visible break line; other is missing butt and part of socketing hole. Both have some expected nicks and abrasions.Condition
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