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The Battle Axe culture, also called Boat Axe culture, is a Chalcolithic culture that flourished in the coastal areas of the south of the Scandinavian Peninsula and southwest Finland, from c. 2800 BC – c. 2300 BC. It was an offshoot of the Corded Ware culture, and replaced the Funnelbeaker culture in southern Scandinavia, probably through a ...
The term Corded Ware culture ( German: Schnurkeramik-Kultur) was first introduced by the German archaeologist Friedrich Klopfleisch in 1883. [11] He named it after cord-like impressions or ornamentation characteristic of its pottery. [11] The term Single Grave culture comes from its burial custom, which consisted of inhumation under tumuli in a ...
Arts and culture. Battleaxe (band), a heavy metal music band from the 1980s. An instrumental piece composed by Carlos Cavazo on Quiet Riot's breakthrough album Metal Health. "Battle-axe", a song by Deftones, from their 2003 album Deftones. Battleaxe (novel) a 1995 novel by Sara Douglass. Battleaxe (comics), Marvel comics character.
The Pitted Ware culture ( c. 3500 BC– c. 2300 BC) was a hunter-gatherer culture in southern Scandinavia, mainly along the coasts of Svealand, Götaland, Åland, north-eastern Denmark and southern Norway. Despite its Mesolithic economy, it is by convention classed as Neolithic, since it falls within the period in which farming reached Scandinavia.
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Minecraft: November 18, 2011: 300 million: Minecraft is a sandbox and survival video game originally created by Swedish game designer Markus "Notch" Persson and developed by Mojang. Originally a computer indie game made using Java, it has since been ported to game consoles and mobile devices. It was bought by Microsoft Studios in November 2014.
A battle axe (also battle-axe, battle ax, or battle-ax) is an axe specifically designed for combat. Battle axes were specialized versions of utility axes. Many were suitable for use in one hand, while others were larger and were deployed two-handed. Axes designed for warfare ranged in weight from just over 0.5 to 3 kg (1 to 7 lb), and in length ...
The Funnel (-neck-)beaker culture, in short TRB or TBK ( German: Trichter (-rand-)becherkultur, Dutch: Trechterbekercultuur; Danish: Tragtbægerkultur; c. 4300–2800 BCE ), was an archaeological culture in north-central Europe. It developed as a technological merger of local neolithic and mesolithic techno-complexes between the lower Elbe and ...