How much do we know about Stonehenge? Less than we think. And what has Stonehenge got to do with the Ice Age? More than we might think. This blog is mostly devoted to the problems of where the Stonehenge bluestones came from, and how they got from their source areas to the monument. Now and then I will muse on related Stonehenge topics which have an Ice Age dimension...
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Thursday 19 November 2015
Recreating The Neolithic Toolkit
This is fun -- it's over a year old, but some might not have seen it. ......
A farmer here found a beautiful stone chisel. At least anyone with woodworking knowledge would call it a chisel, whereas the senior archaeologists call it an axe head used for chopping at tree trunks. It is very beautiful and nobody would take the risk of swinging it at a tree trunk
The new generation of young archeologists seem to be taken a new look at these type of tools and analysing the wear marks very carefully. A lot of reassessments are overdue.
Very interesting.
ReplyDeleteA farmer here found a beautiful stone chisel. At least anyone with woodworking knowledge would call it a chisel, whereas the senior archaeologists call it an axe head used for chopping at tree trunks. It is very beautiful and nobody would take the risk of swinging it at a tree trunk
The new generation of young archeologists seem to be taken a new look at these type of tools and analysing the wear marks very carefully. A lot of reassessments are overdue.