The Tula Adze: manufacture and purpose

• Autores: Mark W. Moore
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 78, Nº 299, 2004, págs. 61-73
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Toolmakers in Queensland Australia used ingenious knapping techniques to produce an implement with a large bulb of percussion and a gouge-shaped cutting edge: the “gull-wing tula adze”. The author concludes that the tool results from a unique compromise between an inefficient knapping technique and a peculiar – but in this case desirable – phenomenon of fracture mechanics