A useful work for explorers and collectors who want to identify their finds. Which prospector does not know the problem, you find an axe or an axe while probing - 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 classify the find or collector's item.
Details
from all over the world
from all eras of human history
with a historical outline of the development of axes
Explanations of terms
More than 600 illustrations (sketches) of various hatchets and axes from all eras
Drawings by K.-H. Steinmann
Table of contents:
Preface
The hatchet, the axe in the course of history
Old types of axe shafts
Prehistoric times and Stone Age up to 2300 BC
Bronze Age from 2300 - 800 B.C.
Pre-Roman Iron Age (Hallstatt period, Latenian period) 800 - 15 B.C.
Roman Imperial Period and Migration Period 15 BCE - 45 AD
Middle Ages
Modern times to the present
Axe types - working axes
Indeterminate axes
plus many sketches for specimens from Russia, Luristan, North America, South America, Ecuador, Africa and Asia.
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