battle ax culture

Battle-Ax culture

noun
a late Neolithic to Copper Age culture of northern Europe marked especially by the production of pottery bearing the imprint of cord and by the use of battle-axes as burial accouterments.
Also called Corded culture.


Origin:
1945–50

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