This style Celt was utilized by the Adena Culture, (500 B.C.-200A.D.), for the use of girdling trees, and cutting small saplings. Adena Rounded Poll Celts can be identified by their triangular shape, and rounded, or oval ends. These are most commonly found in Ohio, as well as Kentucky, with few being found in Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Fine hard stone was used in the production of these Celts. The one seen below is made of some kind of granite.
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They liked traveling. Did you know that the Obsidian Ross blades archaeologists found in Chilicothe Ohio, were sourced from Yellowstone in Wyoming? Pretty neat.
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I wasn't aware of that, but it isn't surprising considering that would be one of the closest sources of obsidian. That material travelled a long way.
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Can you give us some different pictures or angles to look at? Something that really shows its shape . Maybe a poll end shot tooSouth Dakota
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While the axe underwent changes through time toward the discontinuation of the groove, the change was not complete until some time during the Woodland period, when the grooved, ground-stone axe was replaced by the celt (the grooveless axe) as a utilitarian tool form. This is not to say that the celt did not appear until the Woodland period. In fact, while no one really knows when celts were first used, there is evidence that they were in use during the Middle if not the Early Archaic period. Known early celts lacked the material selection and finished look of later celts and may have appeared more adz-like in form.
Not only had the groove disappeared during the Woodland period, but this new form of axe was smaller and much lighter.The poll area of this axe form was also very different.The poll of the grooved ax was often the largest part of the axe, but it is the smallest part of the celt.
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