This volume differs from the earlier ones in 1979 and 1988 by spreading beyond findings in Britain and Ireland, and by seeking out and comparing a range of approaches to stone axes. Among the
topics are symbolic considerations of stone axe production and exchange in 19th-century southeastern Australia, prehistoric stone working in southwest Wales, the prehistoric axe factory at
Sanganakallu-Kukpgal in southern India, the technical use and social function of polished stone axes and hafting systems at the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Chalain and Clairvaux, why to
study the 20th-century polished stone axeheads of New Guinea, and flint axes in Middle and Late Neolithic communities in the northern Netherlands. There is no index. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
