When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object is on loan to the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. FROM CARD FOR STONE ADZE: "FROM A PIT ...

The inter-archipelago exchange of adzes after colonisation was not considered in the widely referred to culture historical Polynesian adze typology developed by New Zealand archaeologist, Roger Duff.

Science isn’t always test tubes and beakers. Sometimes, you have to smash fake skulls with an ax. A team of Spanish scientists used that very technique to try and answer a 7,000 year old mystery, ...

WAIKANAE, NEW ZEALAND—Stuff.co.nz reports that a Maori adze made of Nelson argillite was unearthed at a golf course construction site near the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Human remains ...

Between 7530 and 7320 BCE, a funeral took place on the banks of the river Shannon in what is today County Limerick, Ireland. Now, more than 9000 years later, the site provides a window into the burial ...