Estimating the scale of stone axe production: A case study from Onega Lake, Russian Karelia

The industry of metatuff axes and adzes on the western coast of Onega Lake (Eneolithic period, ca. 3500 – 1500 cal. BC) allows assuming some sort of craft specialization. Excavations of a workshop site Fofanovo XIII, conducted in 2010-2011, provided an extremely large assemblage of artefacts (over 3...

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Main Authors: Alexey Tarasov, Sergey Stafeev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2014-03-01
Series:Journal of Lithic Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/757