A stone celt is a prehistoric axe made of a sharpened stone wedged into a hole bored in a piece of wood. Sounds simple, right? Well, building a tool by hand is an arduous process that demands ...

Gray stone celt, which is a tool shaped like a chisel or an axe head. The stone tool would have been attached to a wooden handle to use like an axe. This object was collected by Israel Hopkins Harris ...

Scrapers and celts like these were staples of Chickasaw daily life, but craftspeople usually made their tools out of stone or bone. But somehow, people living around what’s now Stark Farms ...

STONE CELTS FROM THE NAGA HILLS.—An interesting sidelight is thrown on the stage of culture of early races inhabiting the Naga Hills by Mr. J. H. Hutton in the course of a description of two ...

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A celt, belonging to the neolithic period, was discovered in Poothinatham village in Dharmapurai district, where archaeological excavations are being carried out by Tamil Nadu’s Department of ...

MONSIEUR PITRE DE LISLE has lately called attention to a singular class of stone celts or hatchets which have for the most part, if not indeed only, been found in Brittany and North-Western France.

Rajaguru said that the mesolithic scraper, measuring 4cm in length and 4.5cm in width, was made of a type of stone called cert. "The mesolithic or microlithic period dates back to 10,000 BC to ...