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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

In this video, I attempt to forge an adze for the first time, using measurements taken from a family heirloom belonging to my grandfather, who used it to create wooden gutters. #handforged ...

A pre-European stone adze unearthed on a forestry block in eastern Taranaki has been returned to iwi for safekeeping. The artefact was found on November 13 on a farm track at Tututawa that was being ...