Shoe-Last Adze

A long thin stone adze (chisel-shaped ground-stone tool) employed by the Danubian farmers of the Early Neolithic, possibly as a hoe for cultivating their fields. It is a common stone tool found in Early Neolithic Linear Pottery contexts throughout Europe. It might also have been used as an adze for carpentry.

Common stone tool found in Early Neolithic Linear Pottery contexts throughout Europe; it is long and thin in shape with a D-shaped cross-section. It might have been used as an adze for carpentry, but it is perhaps more likely that it was an agricultural tool, a sort of hoe.