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Battle-Ax culture

noun

  1. 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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Battle-Ax culture1

First recorded in 1945–50

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