Danish Mesolithic Period Juvenile Deer Skull Fragment tombfigure Areas of chipping to rim

Areas of chipping to rim

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Impressive and highly unusual wooden power figure carved entirely from a single log in the form of a stylised casket

Danish Mesolithic Period Juvenile Deer Skull Fragment tombfigure Areas of chipping to rimErteblle Culture, c. 54003950 BC, Mesolithic Period, Denmark A fascinating and well preserved juvenile red deer skull frontlet, peat bog found and marked by cutting incisions made with flint toolsclear signs of ritual or utilitarian use. This evocative piece comes from the Erteblle culture, one of Northern Europes most intriguing Mesolithic societies. Renowned for their coastal settlements, dugout canoes, and shell middens, the Erteblle people thrived