Before the arrival of Europeans the blades of adzes were made of stone. Why do you think people would adopt this new style of adze blades? Adzes tools come in many shapes and sizes (see Figure 1-4), ...

For one Otago researcher, a decades-old archaeological project studying eleven tonnes of artefacts from Tiwai Point – ...

The tool is a combination of a fire axe and an adze (or hoe), allowing firefighters to chop or dig with the flip of a wrist. Its design has remained largely unchanged since its creation over 100 ...

These knives could be used for scraping or smoothing. Can you think of one use for these tools? The nephrite adze blades in Figure 22 are made from large piece of stone called a blank. For strong ...