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  2. Battle Axe culture - Wikipedia

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    The Battle Axe culture is mostly known for its burials. Around 250 Battle Axe burials have been found in Sweden. They are quite different from those found in the Single Grave culture of Denmark. [2] In the Battle Axe culture, the deceased were usually placed in a single flat grave with no barrow. Graves were typically oriented north-south, with ...

  3. Battle axe - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Archaeologists Discovered 2 Unusual Graves With Skeletons and ...

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    The style of axe found—it features a chased hammer on the butt end and a semicircular notch at the base—was ... A total of 14 battle axes have so far been found from that era in northeast ...

  5. Corded Ware culture - Wikipedia

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    Along the once heavily timbered walls were found the remains of about twenty clay vessels, six work axes and a battle axe, which all came from the last period of the culture. There were also the cremated remains of at least six people. This is the earliest find of cremation in Scandinavia and it shows close contacts with Central Europe.

  6. Dane axe - Wikipedia

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    The Dane axe or long axe (including Danish axe and English long axe) is a type of European early medieval period two-handed battle axe with a very long shaft, around 0.9–1.2 metres (2 ft 11 in – 3 ft 11 in) at the low end to 1.5–1.7 metres (4 ft 11 in – 5 ft 7 in) or more at the long end. Sometimes called a broadaxe (Old Norse ...

  7. Nordic Bronze Age - Wikipedia

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    The Nordic Bronze Age (also Northern Bronze Age, or Scandinavian Bronze Age) is a period of Scandinavian prehistory from c. 2000/1750–500 BC.. The Nordic Bronze Age culture emerged about 1750 BC as a continuation of the Battle Axe culture (the Scandinavian Corded Ware variant) and Bell Beaker culture, [1] [2] as well as from influence that came from Central Europe. [3]

  8. Battle-axe (woman) - Wikipedia

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    Battle-axe (woman) Carrie Nation, brandishing a hatchet. A battle-axe is a derogatory traditional stereotype describing a woman characterized as aggressive, overbearing and forceful. The term originated as a gender-independent descriptor in the early 20th century, but became primarily applied to women around the middle of the century.

  9. Bikinis, surfboards and battle-axes? Hawaii loosens long ...

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    A subsequent federal appeals court ruling applied Bruen to the state’s ban on butterfly knives and found it unconstitutional. ... He said his walks with the halberd or a shorter battle-axe help ...