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.

Included in delivery

• Identification book "Hatchets and axes"
• Supplied in closed protective film