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 process of mass migration and population replacement. It is thought to have been responsible for spreading Indo-European languages and other elements of Indo-European culture to the region. It co-existed for a time with the hunter-gatherer Pitted Ware culture, which it eventually absorbed, developing into the Nordic Bronze Age. The Nordic Bronze Age has, in turn, been considered ancestral to the Germanic peoples.
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A battleaxe (also battle-axe, battle ax, or battle-ax) is an axe specifically designed for combat. Battleaxes were specialized versions of utility axes...
Battle Axe culture, or Boat Axeculture, is named from its characteristic male grave offering, a stone boat-shaped battleaxe. Corded Ware encompassed most...
was introduced in Scandinavia in the Corded Ware culture. In much of Scandinavia, a BattleAxeculture became prominent, known from some 3,000 graves....
The Norwegian battleaxe, also called Norwegian peasant militia axe, Norwegian peasant axe or peasant battleaxe (Norwegian: bondeøks or bondestridsøks)...
accompanied by a battle-axe, amber beads, and pottery vessels. The Single Grave culture was a local variant of the Corded Ware culture, and appears to...
widespread than the metal itself. The European BattleAxeculture used stone axes modeled on copper axes, even with moulding carved in the stone. Ötzi...
Bronze Age culture emerged about 1750 BC as a continuation of the BattleAxeculture (the Scandinavian Corded Ware variant) and Bell Beaker culture, as well...
Germanic peoples. The BattleAxeculture, a local variant of the Corded Ware culture, which was itself an offshoot of the Yamnaya culture, emerged in southern...
Kierikki, Finland Ceremonial axe head (Alunda moose) Amber disc and beads, BattleAxeculture, Denmark Single Grave culture artefacts, Denmark The Hindsgavl...
is a continuation of the burial custom characterising the Scanian Battle-axeCulture, often to continue into the early Late Neolithic. Also in northern...
boat-shaped stone axe of battleaxeculture. Ukko's hammer Vasara (lit. "hammer") probably originally meant the same thing as the boat-shaped stone axe. When stone...
axe developed into the "flanged axe", then palstaves, and later winged and socketed axes. At least since the late Neolithic, elaborate axes (battle-axes...
hypothesis, the battle-axe people may be seen as an already "kurganized" culture, built on the substrate of the earlier Funnelbeaker culture.[citation needed]...
Swedes descend from the presumably Indo-European BattleAxeculture and also the Pitted Ware culture. Prior to the first century AD there is no written...
Axes of Perun, also called "hatchet amulets", are archaeological artifacts worn as a pendant and shaped like a battleaxe in honor of Perun, the supreme...
Helena (October 9, 2019). "The genomic ancestry of the Scandinavian BattleAxeCulture people and their relation to the broader Corded Ware horizon". Proceedings...
new tribes who many scholars think spoke Proto-Indo-European, the Battle-Axeculture. This new people advanced up to Uppland and the Oslofjord, and they...
millennium BC, introducing branches of the Corded Ware culture (such as the BattleAxeCulture), later be followed by the Nordic Bronze Age. The tripartite...
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