Abstract
The article provides an overview of hand-held woodworking tool being recorded from surface collections in southern Illinois. The tools are rather crude and made from fractured igneous cobbles. The axes, recognized as full-grooved axes, were hafted to handles through grooves pecked around the poll end's circumference opposite the bit. The tradition of axe making evolved through time ending with ungrooved axe-heads, referred commonly as celts, in the Mississippian period.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 10-11 |
| Journal | Illinois Antiquity |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
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