The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain (1872)
Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908 · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 167
147 IN WOODEN HAFTS. this form of mountiug in axes and adzes from New Guinea and Celebes. We are left in a great degree to conjecture as to the other methods of mounting stone hatchets and adzes on handles in prehistoric times ; but doubtless others besides those already … Fig. 102.— Adze— New Caledonia. mentioned were practised. A very common method among exist- ing savages is to bind the blade of stone on to the face of a branch at the end of the handle, which in some cases projects upwards, and in others downwards, and is inclined at an angle more or less…
Stone age -- Great Britain · Great Britain -- Antiquities
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