English: They are probably evidence of contact with the Nordic area in the last centuries of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC. Different varieties of such forms were widespread in the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia, when younger structures of megalithic tombs, the so-called passage tombs, were constructed there. These axes are generally considered to be weapons and objects of prestige, and their prototypes are found in stone slashes or the oldest copper axes.