The 9,000-year-old ax sheds light on the ancient burial custom

The thousand-year-old ax was found at a burial site with graves providing valuable information about the burial of ancestors.

Accordingly, the Archeology Department research team at York University, led by Dr. Aimée, thinks that this ax is a clay-made ax, polished by the estimated 9,000 years old and found in an ancient landfill in Ireland.

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It is possible that this ax played a very important role in cremations that appeared on this landfill thousands of years ago.

Speaking to the Irish Times, Dr. Little said that the stone tools and tools found in the area were only used by Irish ancient inhabitants to hunt and gather around the island. . Strictly speaking, it was also used in the ancestral burial rites of our ancestors .

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The archaeological group argues that this clay stone ax may be used to chop trees, cut wood into fireworks to bury the dead. Thanks to this ax, the huge burial halls formed and then burned from 645-1200 degrees Celsius. And the ax was buried as a way to mark the area or mark something that ancient residents We leave the landfill immediately.

It is known that this landfill is located on the banks of the Shannon River, dating from 7530 to 7320 BC.