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Hafting is a process by which an artifact, often made of bone, stone, or metal is attached to a haft (handle [1] or strap). This makes the artifact more useful by allowing it to be launched by a bow ( arrow ), thrown by hand ( spear ), or used with more effective leverage ( axe ).
A palstave with an additional loop. A palstave is a type of early bronze axe.It was common in the middle Bronze Age in northern, western and south-western Europe. In the technical sense, although precise definitions differ, an axe is generally deemed to be a palstave if it is hafted by means of a forked wooden handle kept in place with high, cast flanges and stop bar.
Arrow points are smaller and lighter than dart points, and were used to tip arrows. The question of how to distinguish an arrow point from a point used on a larger projectile is non-trivial. According to some investigators, the best indication is the width of the hafting area, which is thought to correlate to the width of the shaft. [4]
Haft may refer to: . Haft, another name for the hilt of a bayonet, dagger, knife, or sword; Haft (or helve), the shaft or handle of an arrow, axe, or spear; The narrow constricted part of the standards and falls near the center of the iris flower
[citation needed] The working edges of scrapers tend to be convex, and many have trimmed and dulled lateral edges to facilitate hafting. One important variety of scraper is the thumbnail scraper , a scraper shaped much like its namesake.
In areas where appropriate spinifex species grew, many hunting and working implements benefited from the use of spinifex gum or resin as a hafting adhesive: [4] Spinifex resin was often a crucial ingredient in spear-making, being used to fasten the head onto the shaft. A man would always carry at least one spear, and normally a clump of resin ...
Eventually the hafting method changed and the flat axe developed into the "flanged axe", then palstaves, and later winged and socketed axes. [ citation needed ] Hand axes from Swanscombe at the British Museum that belongs to Swanscombe Man who lived 200,000–300,000 years ago
The Levallois technique of flint-knapping. In archaeology, in particular of the Stone Age, lithic reduction is the process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing some parts.