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PRONUNCIATION OF STONE AXE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STONE AXE

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Stone axe is a noun.
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WHAT DOES STONE AXE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Stone tool

A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric, particularly Stone Age cultures that have become extinct. Archaeologists often study such prehistoric societies, and refer to the study of stone tools as lithic analysis. Stone has been used to make a wide variety of different tools throughout history, including arrow heads, spearpoints and querns. Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or chipped stone, and a person who creates tools out of the latter is known as a flintknapper. Chipped stone tools are made from cryptocrystalline materials such as chert or flint, radiolarite, chalcedony, basalt, quartzite and obsidian via a process known as lithic reduction. One simple form of reduction is to strike stone flakes from a nucleus of material using a hammerstone or similar hard hammer fabricator. If the goal of the reduction strategy is to produce flakes, the remnant lithic core may be discarded once it has become too small to use.

Definition of stone axe in the English dictionary

The definition of stone axe in the dictionary is a primitive axe made of chipped stone. Other definition of stone axe is a blunt axe used for cutting stone.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STONE AXE

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stone parsley
stone pine
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stone roller
stone saw
Stone sheep
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WORDS THAT END LIKE STONE AXE

axe
battle-axe
broadaxe
curtal axe
ice axe
mad as a meataxe
meat axe
meataxe
pickaxe
poleaxe
Saxe
the axe

Synonyms and antonyms of stone axe in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «stone axe» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STONE AXE

Find out the translation of stone axe to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stone axe from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stone axe» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

石斧
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hacha de piedra
570 millions of speakers

English

stone axe
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पत्थर कुल्हाड़ी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفأس الحجرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

каменный топор
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

machado de pedra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাথর কুঠার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hache de pierre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kapak batu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Steinaxt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

石斧
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

돌 도끼
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kapak batu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lưỡi rìu đá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கல் கோடாரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दगड कुत्रा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Taş balta
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ascia di pietra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kamienny topór
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кам´яна сокира
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

topor de piatră
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λίθινος πέλεκυς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

klip byl
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

stenyxa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

steinøks
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STONE AXE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STONE AXE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STONE AXE»

Discover the use of stone axe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stone axe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Stone Axe Studies III
This volume builds upon the model of the first Stone Axe Studies volume published in 1979. It explores how scholars from various parts of the world currently approach these distinctive items.
Vin Davis, Mark R. Edmonds, 2011
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Interpreting the Axe Trade: Production and Exchange in ...
These different analytical threads are then woven together in the final section of the book, where the authors suggest that the patterns explored in the course of their work reflect major changes in the nature of social life during the ...
Richard Bradley, Mark Edmonds, 2005
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Time, Energy and Stone Tools
Type ofhaftedtool Type of tree Tree diameter (cm) Elapsed time (minutes) Reference ground flint axe oak over 30 30 Iversen 1956; Bordaz 1970 ground stone axe cottonwood 10 under 6 Morris 1939 ground stone axe elm 8 10 Pond 1930° ...
Robin Torrence, 1989
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The primitive inhabitants of Scandinavia, during the stone age
144. Stone Axe. 146. Axe of trap. Scania. 146. Gouge, from Broad basalt Scania. 147. Axe of shell, from California. 148. Stone Axe, from Scania. 149. Axe of clay slate, from Scania. 150. Axe, from Nootka, now in the British Museum. Stone Axe.
Sven Nilsson, John Lubbock (1st baron Avebury), 1868
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One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Tales form 1972-1985
The men broke this stone further and made a stone axe. The men called this axe, “Kunjun.” It is the name of the place where the stone axe was found. This place where the stone axe was found is forbidden to women, because the ghost of the ...
Thomas H. Slone, 2001
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Man in Adaptation: The Cultural Present
From this brief listing of some of the activities in which the axe was used, it is easy to understand why there was at least one stone axe in every camp, in every hunting or fighting party, in every group out on a "walkabout" in the bush. While the ...
Yehudi A. Cohen, 1971
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Stone Tools & Society
... double-ditched barrow, Barrow hills Human remains from Skendleby long barrow Detail of the burial at Barrow hills Roughout axe of volcanic tuff Stone axe quarry in the central Lakeland fells Changes in the landscape 2: the Later Neolithic ...
Mark Edmonds, 2012
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Portable X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry: Capabilities for ...
Stone axe-heads were frequently manufactured from particular rock types, and were sometimes transported by people over long distances within the British Isles . Identification of the rock types, and if possible the source outcrops, of these ...
P. J. Potts, Margaret West, 2008
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Cultures of the Pacific
displacement of the stone axe by the steel axe. The production of a stone axe required a number of simple technological skills. With the various details of the axe well in mind, adult men could set about producing it (a task not considered ...
Thomas G. Harding, Ben J. Wallace, 1970
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Statements in Stone: Monuments and Society in Neolithic Brittany
DISCUSSION The aim of this chapter has been to develop an outline for a model of stone axe exchange in the Armorican Neolithic, relating the evidence for axe production and exchange to the evidence for axe symbolism in megalithic ritual.
Mark Patton, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STONE AXE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stone axe is used in the context of the following news items.
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Making A Stone Axe Without Any Tools Is Really Impressive
Get a giant stick. Shape a big stone. Put the stone in the stick and you have a Celt stone axe made without any tools other than what nature gave you. Watch as ... «Gizmodo Australia, Jun 15»
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Stone axe in German forest for 6000 years
An axe head found in a German forest is around 6000 years old but still sharp ... for his Highland cattle when he chanced on the piece of carefully shaped stone. «SBS, Jun 15»
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Making a stone axe from scratch
The manufacture of a stone ax including the handle from using only primitive tools and materials. It is a celt (pronounced "selt") a type of ax with a polished stone ... «Boing Boing, Jun 15»
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Neolithic axe head found in field near Caistor is 4000 years old
Experts have described the stone axe head, which comes from the Neolithic era and is carved in fine-grained green stone, as a "very important find" for ... «Grimsby Telegraph, Feb 14»
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3000-year-old stone axe unearthed
Nagapattinam (Tamil Nadu): A small polished stone axe, believed to be dating back to the new stone age period, has been unearthed at Thirukkadaiyur near ... «NDTV, May 12»
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AUSTRALIA: Global team finds oldest ground-stone axe
Such is the case of an international team of archaeologists who found a piece of a stone axe in northern Australia and discovered its blade had been ground ... «University World News, Feb 11»
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Stone-age axe head unearthed in Perth
The Neolithic stone axe head discovered in Perth is thought to date back to 4000-2200 BC. Historians say axe heads such as this small, polished item made ... «stv.tv, Feb 11»
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35000-year-old stone axe found in Australia
Older stone axes have been found in New Guinea, but they do not have edges sharpened by grinding. This suggests that "axe technology evolved into the later ... «Australian Geographic, Nov 10»
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Oldest known stone axe found in Arnhem Land
A ground-edge stone axe found at the rock art gallery Gabarnmung in west Arnhem Land. (Monash University: Bruno David) ... «ABC Science Online, Nov 10»
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Stone Age humans needed more brain power to make big leap in …
Stone Age humans were only able to develop relatively advanced tools after their ... two million years to move from razor-sharp stones to a hand-held stone axe. «Imperial College London, Nov 10»

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