Europe’s Oldest Polished Axe?
Hermitage, Co Limerick, Rep Ireland | Mesolithic cremation cemetery
- Earliest polished axe (decomissioned? Mesolithic)
“The cremation too, which requires a fire between 645 and 1,200 degrees would have also required some know-how and experience, Little tells Gartland. In fact, she says whoever prepared the grave took painstaking effort to pick up every tiny fragment of bone to put in the burial.”
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