In archaeology, ground stone is a category of stone tool formed by the grinding of a coarse-grained tool stone, either purposely or incidentally. Ground stone tools are usually made of …

Oct 28, 2021 · The full grooved axe, the first type of axe developed by the Indigenous peoples of North America, was an essential part of a larger tool kit of ground stone tools that Native North …

In the consideration of axes it is necessary to include stone celts, as in many cases they were hafted, and used as hand hatchets and axes. The celt which is ungrooved has quite as great a …

"The term "celt" is used to refer to an ungrooved, tapered, ground stone axe with a centered edge at one end. An average size is roughly between 3 to 6 inches (8 to 16 cm) in length---."

While the axe underwent changes through time toward the discontinuation of the groove, the change was not complete until some time during the Woodland period, when the grooved, …

In this chapter, I summarize my mineralogical and spatial analyses of ground stone celts and production debris from sites in the Lower Fraser region.

This ungrooved axe, or ‘celt’ is from North Carolina, and is made from igneous stone. The artefact in this model was recovered from the Garden Creek Mound No. 1 (31Hw1), Haywood County, …

In this chapter, I summarize my mineralogical and spatial analyses of ground stone celts and production debris from sites in the Lower Fraser region.

Jul 29, 2020 · Ground stone analysis is a multifaceted method that involves an interesting combination of behavioral and technological approaches, ethnographic analogy, cross-cultural …

Ground-stone tools were made from pieces of limestone, sandstone, and granitic cobbles, which were available locally in rock outcrops and deposits of stone left behind by glaciers. Granitic …