An adze is an essential tool for those who work with wood by hand. Its shape and structure give you specific control while processing wood, especially when chopping curved forms, planning, and ...

For some, the firefly is mystical, but in West-African cultures, it's a monster. For many of us, the firefly is a mystical, enchanting creature of the twilight. To the people of some West-African ...

A stone chopping tool found in Ireland’s earliest known human burial offers a rare peek at hunter-gatherers’ beliefs about death more than 9,000 years ago, researchers say. The curved-edge implement, ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute is incorporating a traditional Native carving method into the building of the Walter Soboleff Center in Juneau. Wayne Price is a Tlingit carver from Haines. He’s using an ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

RARE FIND: The ancient adze was unearthed from a 15th-century settlement at Ngatitoa Domain. . Photo: CHRIS SKELTON An ancient Maori adze has been unearthed from a 15th-century settlement in Porirua, ...

The Pulaski was created in the years just following the 1910 Big Burn by U.S. Forest Service Ranger Ed Pulaski. Pulaski combines combines an axe and an adze in one head. Wikipedia The Pulaski was ...

I shaped a basalt adze with primitive tools and used it to cut trees. The durable tool allowed me to fell and shape timber efficiently. Donald Trump issues funding threat to Smithsonian 3 police ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Source of the information below: ...