Two Stone Axes

[Lee]

The small one is Danish. I acquired it in a souvenir shop decades ago, where someone had hafted actual prehistoric fragments - this was the best (most complete) of the bunch. A more intact and complete Danish one will be longer and more similar to the Mount Hagen example, as seen following the link. When I saw the Mount Hagen one much more recently at a flea market, I was struck by the similarities in the shapes of these stone axeheads and how they had been hafted and so succumbed to its purchase. I guess form may well follow function and I like these parallel evolutions.

[Ian]

Sorry Lee. I misread your post.

[Tim Simmons]

I like the stripped handle example. So far that form has eluded me.