#5000 bc

Found this at the beach under a cliff last year after a storm. Asked some friends about it, one works as a anthropologist and said this looks late paleolithic, most likely a blade made for a handle. Wow!

I've always had a knack for finding fossils, once a medieval seal (which a school colleague borrowed from me just to break it, that still rankles) or the occasional arrowhead. But this is the first time I found a knife. I'm actually excited! And afterwards I went on a geographical/archeological tour on the coast to learn more about the place I live in. It's fascinating!

For example: just some hundred meters to about 5 kilometers out in the Baltic Sea are shallows which sometimes existed through the middle ages (in one example till the end of the 19th century) as flat islands or peninsulas. As the ground is rather unstable, not caused by volcanos or such dramatic natural devices but because it's just so soaked through and muddy, the ground rises and sinks sometimes. So many of these islands perished in violent storms and nowadays lie just some 5 to 10 meters below the surface. The latest archeological work showed tens of Neolithic settlements, ranging in time from 5000 to 4500 B.C. This narrows "my" blade down to the mesolithic aera, most likely part of the Ertebølle-Culture, found mostly in Denmark (which is really only one boat tour away from where I live).

The Ertebølle-Culture was a culture found in South-Scandinavia and North-Germany. Part of that is the earliest ceramic ever found in Northern Germany. Those mesolithic settlers most likely had trade connections as far as southern Germany, as prestige objects like Danubian axes could be found. (I'm not surprised, people travel astoundingly long routes for prestigious objects and spices, like late egyptian traders bought amber from the Baltic Sea and even some Arabic coins found their way up to the Vikings.) They were on the very edge of the Neolithic aera, having not only dogs for the hunt but also the first domesticated animals. They built bigger boats than only dug out canoes and hunted for seals and even small whales.

Rock Art at Laas Geel, Somaliland, 9.000 - 3.000 BC

Sails of the Ancient Period, by J. Whitewright 2011

The oldest archaeological evidence of the use of a square rig on a vessel is an image on a clay disc from Mesopotamia dating back to 5000 BC, but it can be assumed that these sails were in use for much longer.

Spray and acrylic on cotton / 175 x 140 cm / Briat 2019

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