Estimating the scale of stone axe production: A case study from Onega Lake, Russian Karelia

• Published in: Journal of Lithic Studies
• Main Authors: Alexey Tarasov, Sergey Stafeev
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Edinburgh 2014
• Subjects: lithic technology; neolithic; eneolithic; karelia; fennoscandia; stone axe; adze; gouge; craft specialization; mass-analysis; image recognition; Archaeology; CC1-960; Onega; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.v1i1.757; https://doaj.org/article/0b4bb65ad1094522b030a1f152994de3

The industry of metatuff axes and adzes on the western coast of Onega Lake (Eneolithic period, ca. 3500 – 1500 cal. BC) allows assuming some sort of craft specialization. Excavations of a workshop site Fofanovo XIII, conducted in 2010-2011, provided an extremely large assemblage of artefacts (over 3...