From 2017, the experimental production (drilling, grinding, cutting, hammering and chipping) of stone axes and adzes from cut stone followed on from our earlier experiments and grew not only into their use in wood processing (felling trees, making hollowed-out boats, building a well, splitting wood ) and stone, but also to understand the entire chain of use of related artefacts (e.g. beaters and crushers). Many tools are functionally defined. We begin to understand the shape, width and angle of the blades of axes and adzes. It was possible to solve the durability of the handles of both drilled and non-drilled tools. It turns out that tool durability and recycling strongly influence what survives in the archaeological record.
CONTACT
Doc. PhDr. Radomír Tichý, Ph.D.
e. radomir.tichy@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 331 269
