A useful work for explorers and collectors who want to identify their finds. What prospector hasn't experienced the problem of finding a hatchet or axe while exploring - but how old is it? What was it used for? Iron finds are often particularly difficult to identify, and this identification book helps to clearly categorise the find or collector's item.
Details
from all over the world
from all eras of human history
with a historical outline of axe development
Explanations of terms
More than 600 illustrations (sketches) of various hatchets and axes from all eras
Drawings by K.-H. Steinmann
Table of contents:
Foreword
The hatchet, the axe in the course of history
Old types of axe shafts
Prehistoric and Stone Age up to 2300 BC
Bronze Age from 2300 - 800 BC
Pre-Roman Iron Age (Hallstatt period, Latenian period) 800 - 15 B.C.
Roman Imperial Period and Migration Period 15 BC - 45 AD
Middle Ages
Modern times to the present
Axe types - working axes
Undetermined axes
plus many sketches for specimens from Russia, Luristan, North America, South America, Ecuador, Africa and Asia.
Included in delivery
Identification book "Hatchets and axes"
Supplied in sealed protective film
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