Neolithic stone axe with haft attached found in Denmark

[Duncan Head]

Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered an incredibly rare find: a stone age axe held within its wooden handle. The 5,500-year-old Neolithic axe was found during archaeological surveys ahead of a multi-billion euro tunnel project.
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The find was made in Rodbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland, which is to be connected to the German island of Fehmarn via the tunnel link.

"Finding a hafted [handle-bearing] axe as well preserved as this one is quite amazing," said Soren Anker Sorensen, an archaeologist at the Museum Lolland-Falster in Denmark.

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30197084, which has a picture.

[Patrick Waterson]

Very useful, because this confirms how axe-heads of this nature were secured to handles.

The article also mentions other finds in the same general area:

Archaeologists have found other similarly well preserved organic material in the area during their excavations.

These include upright wooden stakes, a paddle, bows and other axe shafts.

I can see an army list taking shape here ...

[Duncan Head]

DBMM's already there; although the Early North European sublist only nominally goes back (IIRC) to 2000 BC, the earliest phase is based on Neolithic archers. (Even if, at DBMM scale, I suspect that an entire army of this period might struggle to reach a couple of elements...)

[Tim]

So what is the Latin for minor skirmish?  DBA would have to be renamed D?PH...

[Duncan Head]

Phil tested a set of DB* skirmish rules once, years ago, at an SoA Knuston conference. I think he called them something like "De Bellis Velitum".

[Andreas Johansson]

Phil tested a set of DB* skirmish rules once, years ago, at an SoA Knuston conference. I think he called them something like "De Bellis Velitum".

De Bellis Velitum is available, abeit well hidden, on his website.