2025/12/15 by Patrick Nørskov Pedersen, Aimée Little, Mark T. Edmonds +1 · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Archaeological and Geological Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10267
Polished stone axes are one of the most iconic types of tools of Europe’s first farmers. Despite their ubiquity, we know relatively little about how they were used. Here, the authors outline how macroscopic wear analysis is revealing diversity in the use and treatment of axe-heads from Neolithic Orkney.