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Tools

Waisted axe head

Hominin who used this tool

Homo sapiens

Age of tool

30,000 ya - modern times

This Indigenous tool from Australia was designed to be fixed into a handle with twine and resin, and was used as an axe. The axe was used cutting toeholds, chopping out bees' and possums' nests, trenching around sheets of bark for containers and canoes, and for adzing and cutting wood.

waisted axe head
waisted axe head

More information
Initial reduction flaking
Advanced reduction flaking
Pecking, grinding and polishing
Hafting

Other tools
Core tool
Chopper tool
Hand axe
Blade knife
Arrowhead
Composite tool
Ground edge axe

Aboriginal tools
Grinding stone