Two Neolithic stone-axe roughouts from the Province of Drenthe

Abstract

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To summarize, it can be stated, as a hypothetical conclusion, that it is reasonable to assume the presence of a Neolithic or neolithicized population in the lower parts of Drenthe between ca. 5300 and 4900 B.P., who used quartzitic sandstone axes round to oval in cross-section, which they made on the spot out of locally present erratics and which is most probably identical to the population group which imported other stone tools as celts from the region of the Rössen culture. In terms of conventional dates this means that the first Neolithic occupation of Drenthe took place in the last centuries ofthe 4th millennium B.C.