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Full Grooved Axe Head 

- very huge - 

Neolithic, North America, 9000 - 5000 BC

Black quartzite

15 cm large and 7,5 cm width.

Provenance: Private collection, Mr. M., Moulins, France, fromed during 1960 - 1970.

Condition: Very Good. See images. 

The full grooved axe, the first type of axe developed by the Indigenous peoples of North America, was an essential part of a larger tool kit of ground stone tools that Native North Americans began making during the Archaic period. 

A grooved axe is a large stone tool, one end typically tapered, with a groove around the midsection where a split wooden handle would have been attached or hafted to the stone using animal sinew. Grooved axes were used by Native Americans to aid in the chopping down of trees and splitting wood. It was a necessary wood working tool in the kit produced and used by Indigenous North Americans.

The axes are considered full grooved axes, meaning that the groove goes completely around the circumference of the tool. They were produced during the Early Archaic period, about 9,000-8,000 years before present.

These were the first types of grooved axes produced, later types did not have full grooves, instead the grooves would only go ¾ of the way or only halfway around the tool, likely reflecting changes in how it was hafted to a wooden handle.

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Neolithic - Stone, Huge Full Grooved Axe Head. 15 cm L. North America, 9000 - 5000 BC. - Ancient artwork

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