hand ax

The roadie from the other band, Slade, chased me with a bloody hand ax. And really blood and guts, passing out or hyped up and all that-and no money in it or anything.

* AX OR HATCHET: You can't beat a hand ax or its smaller cousin, the hatchet, for cutting out roots of trees or bushes that have become exposed.

A 15-year-old boy was arrested Monday on suspicion of attempting to murder his father with a hand ax while the man was asleep at home in the town of Tatsuno, Nagano Prefecture, local police said.

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Suriano is still trying to obtain items crucial to Iditarod competition: veterinary care, dog food, harnesses, collars, dog cable gang line, dog booties, medical supplies, 1/4-inch chain, 1/4-inch quick links, snaps, 22-inch hand ax, snowshoes with bindings, outdoor cook stove, musher mittens, hand and foot warmers, thermal underwear, socks, and rain gear.

However, the value of a tool such as a hand ax is not in the rock itself, but in how it was selected and modified.

2 ACHEU LEAN HAND AX Several hundred thousand of these early stone tools have been found in Africa, Europe, and Asia, so a lot are traded privately outside the museum circuit.

Researchers say they have identified the first example of a bone, not stone, hand ax crafted by ancient humans in East Asia.

This versatile tool allows use as a small hand ax with a fine cutting edge and saw teeth for notching.

Makers of a specific style of teardrop-shaped stone hand ax, flat-edged cleavers and other implements that originated in Africa around 1.6 million years ago (SN: 1/31/09, p.

Now, the discovery of ancient hand axes in southern China's Bose basin supports the growing suspicion that hand ax production sometimes crossed what archaeologists call the Movius line.

The lab's director, Dietrich Stout, focuses on hand axes, dating back more than 500,000 years.