This extremely rare European Neolithic copper artifact
is one of the earliest European metal daggers
from the Bell Beaker Culture", dating 2500-2050 bc.
It is the very typical simple and plain shape of the first metal daggers!
Bell Beaker Culture is also known as Glockenbecher (German)
and Gobelet campaniforme (French) culture.
Among the Middle Neolithic objects discovered in Passage Graves, and occurring as stray finds, we find objects belonging to a separate culture, the Bell Beaker Culture. The culture known as Bell Beaker is the largest portion of the loosely grouped Beaker Folk, named for a very particular type of ceramic vessel, shaped like an upside-down bell. A very widespread culture were pastoralists from the Late Copper Age into the Early Bronze Age, ca. 2500-2200 BC. This group appears almost simultaneously over an immense area extending from the coastal regions of Southwest Europe through the whole of Central Europe as far as Denmark. It has been customary to represent this culture as spreading through Europe from Central Spain but it proves to be of foreign derivation even in Spain and its origins can be traced further South to North Africa and Egypt. In Northern Europe their influence can clearly be seen in the earlier objects from the Eastern Single Grave area. The comparatively small number of relics of this culture groups undoubtedly, in Denmark as in the rest of Europe, stands in inverse proportion toits importance in cultural development. The bearer of this culture have been described as armed merchants, also dealing with metal.
Provenance is an old German collection.
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of this terrific Younger Stone Age artifact.
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