The Stone Battle-Axe: Is This Thor's Hammer?

The stone battle-axe was the most important weapon of Early Bronze Age Europe.

These weapons were used for a thousand years by peoples from the Baltic to the Atlantic. But where and when were they invented, who were the people who wielded them, and how were they used?

And are they really the weapon wielded by the Norse thunder god, Thor?

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