Here are some flaked and polished stone axes from Southeast Asia (the one in the middle is from the Dominican Republic, it ended up there during a show and just stayed put.) Left to right: Thailand, Vietnam, Dom. Rep., Cambodia, Thailand, and the piece on top is unknown but probably Thailand.
good looking artifacts, is the middle one a pick axe?
It's a Taino artifact from the caribbean called a petaloid axe, some of them were just ceremonial decoration, but most of them were used as celts.
Here are a couple more, the biggest one here is about 10 inches and is sharpened almost all the way around except the pointed end. The next picture are a couple of smaller tool versions, and my miniature monolithic axe/toy hatchet from the Dom. Rep.
How were the ones with tapered poll ends hafted? They look like they would have been socketed and used as chisels? I believe you that they were are axe heads, but I can't figure out how they were hafted.
Nice collection of polished axes/celts Josh. So cool to see stuff from so far away. I am always amazed at the amount of polish and the precision of the bits they put on them. Amazes me. I have a highlty polished one I found from here but has damage (by them ) on it.
Oh yeah like the new Avatar. That a hoot. Very international sir
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Originally Posted by thirty7
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