stone axe

Neolithic cutting tool

A stone axe is a primitive cutting tool with a head made of shaped stone rather than metal, typically bound to a wooden handle.

Stone axes were among humanity's earliest tools, used for felling trees, butchering game, and warfare before the development of metallurgy.

The term sometimes appears figuratively for anything crude or outdated: Their software looks like it was designed in the stone axe era.

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primitive · tool · obsidian · blade · hunting · caveman · cave dweller · chipped · rough hewn · cleaver · quarry · knapping · paleolithic · ice age · granite · handaxe · hand tool · scraper

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material composition

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Alloy-headed cutting tool

ceramic blade

technological era

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Motor-driven cutting tool

laser cutter · industrial machinery · power saw · circular saw · CNC machine

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stone, axe, stones, stoned, stoning, stony, stonework, stonecutter, milestone

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G