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Axes of Stone and Metal Indices for a Time of Transition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Lawrence H. Feldman
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Abstract

The beginning of the end of the dominance of stone tools, in Europe, began with the spread of the use of metallic axes. A suggestion is made that in Mesoamerica, as in Europe, the metallic axe was replacing those of stone, while other stone tools remained in common use.

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American Antiquity , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 135
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1974

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