Objekt 2103
Warm times
Description
From around 9700 BCE onwards the climate started warming up significantly
and the Basel region was covered by dense forests. Humans adapted
to the changing habitat by developing new weapons – the bow and arrow
for instance – to hunt the forest animals. The nomadic hunters became
sedentary over a period of a few thousand years, though hunting and gathering
remained important. Some 5,000 years ago people started to clear
the woods in the area around Riehen-Bettingen with stone axes. They built
settlements, created fields for crops and reared animals.
Object description
Shaft-hole axe (wooden shaft not preserved)
site: Basel-Rheinhafen, c. 3,300–2,500 BCE
serpentinite
on loan from Museum der Kulturen Basel
Inv. 1940.660.