Hi Lindsay,
Thanks, Klaus, for your amazing biblio ("Blistered hands" is a great name for a dissertation!). There is one more Lejre experiment to add to that one:
Steve Watts in the US has done plenty with stone. Aside from previous experiments he did, one of his more recent ones was testing Acheulean handaxes (by hafting them from the tip and using the butt to chop) at Lejre in 2006:
http://www.sagnlandet.dk/TO-SURVIVE-IN-THE-PALEOLITHIC.544.0.html
Lejre will have the report from that experiment if you can't get ahold of Steve.
Steve is president of the SPT:
http://www.primitive.org/index.html
He works here (contact details):
http://www.schielemuseum.org/staff.php
You could also talk to Errett Callahan, as he has done plenty of that kind of thing too, and he'll surely have some publications to hand (his and Steve's). He is much friendlier than his picture looks and he knows everything!
http://www.errettcallahan.com/
I think some French have done experiments comparing metal and stone, but I can't remember which conference that was...
Good luck!
Nat
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From: Experimental archaeology in Britain mailing list [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Beamish, Matt G. [[log in to unmask]]
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Nicely balanced, controlled and fluid removal in the video - good crafts workers with tools suited to the job appear choreographed. But I think I would wear toecaps no matter how good I was.
Matt
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The other person who has done a fair amount of work comparing stone bronze and steel axes is Damian Goodburn (at MoLAS). You should factor in the fact that these folk are competent woodworkers with steel tools playing with stone and bronze. I have only recently become aware of Japanese adzes which I suspect are used in similar ways to bronze adze/axe. Lots of very rapid removal of small chips instead of slow removal of large chips. Bit at the end of this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueIB0h4SzHc
Robin
On 23 Mar 2010, at 11:11, Lindsay Allason-Jones wrote:
> Dear Matt,
> Many thanks!
> Lindsay
>
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>> Richard Darrah has done some of this work and would be a good
>> port of call.
>> http://www.rivenoak.co.uk/1832.html
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
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>> Allason-Jones
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>> Subject: Stone/bronze axes
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>> Dear All,
>> Does anyone know of any experiments that have been carried out
>> recently using stone and/or bronze axes to cut down trees? I'm
>> trying to find out how long each takes to demolish an average
>> sized tree.
>> Many thanks.
>> Lindsay Allason-Jones
>>
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