[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Smokin' Joe]

Instructions for use?

[Beowulf9]

Or could it be the ax was used for decapitation?

[JoeSixPack1]

Oh they got it all wrong. The carving identifies what the axe was used for. And gee.. the carving has no head.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

...9,000 years old and in the shape of a cross.

...the inscribed image of a headless human figure ...

... but the image could also be a symbolic picture of a shaman or medicine man in a trance during which his mind in another place, according to Nordqvist.

Ah, let me speculate. Maybe the shaman saw the coming of Christianity followed by the arrival of Islam.

[AndrewB]

Stone ax image source revealed!

[SunkenCiv]

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[CJ Wolf]

Looks like a headless chicken to me.

[randog]

...but the image could also be a symbolic picture of a shaman or medicine man in a trance during which his mind in another place...

...or it could mean nothing.

[exit82]

I dunno...the right hand of the guy in the picture is a little disturbing.......