The introdution in Neolithic times of the polished stone axe-head,capable of producing large clean cuts,led to greater speed and precision in the in the clearing of woodland, and to its use on a ...

Lucy Harnden brought this polished stone axe head to BBC Guernsey's outside broadcast event at the Guernsey Museum. It was found by her great grandmother Eliza Henry about a hundred years ago in ...

The Discovery Of The Ancient Axe Head In A Raspberry Patch Sławomir ... was likely created by a Neolithic population known as the Globular Amphora culture. The Globular Amphora are a lesser ...

A report to Falkirk Council’s executive committee suggests that all of the museum services’ collections should be ‘rationalised’ by a panel of experts, in a bid to get rid of duplicates, dangerous ...

Neolithic axe heads were not always made for use, but rather for aesthetic power; they may have been given as gifts, expressions of alliance and esteem, and it is possible that some had a symbolic ...

Thousands of items belonging to Falkirk Council 's museums, from a neolithic axe head to industrial machinery, are set to be reviewed by experts as part of a project to see what the service should ...

From grooves etched into rock surfaces by Neolithic inhabitants to menhirs ... bone marrow breakers, and axe heads. STOI spotted a piece of an axe head, its edges gleaming in the sunlight.

In the neolithic period the island of Dogger Bank ... stayed above sea level for a longer period than is thought or that axe heads were dropped by fisherman from a later period as a remembrance ...

"The flint axe was the Swiss Army knife of its time. We know from research work that the part of the human brain which enables us to create such a tool is the same part responsible for forming ...