Page 57 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

VOUll/l IJl 1VAI <1 111 VVUttl
ries prior to 2000 11.c. The rich graves
of their princes contain a wealth of
silver and gold bowls and vases, cop­
per battle-axes, and solar svmbols,
and in addition a number of cnig-
? foot-high figures of bolls and
S’v.T as this, apparentlv in-

■: or the batde-ax peoples
. ; :r. i1 - from central
? ■ i d,? Cm easn - ear ’
h. contrast to the liof gr; -o- . •
lams at Maikop
with their gold anr. ”
and copper standee- ■
graves of Denmark at l.
ern limit of their rare;. ■ <■ .a
of wealth, perhaps oniv as L ; 'i.e
amber buttons used to taste.1 uioaks
and, of course, the battle-ax which
gave the people their name.

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