Stone, pecking stone
Pecking stones, like this example would have been used for the first stages in shaping ground stone tools. They would have been used to knock small bits of rock of the stone pieces before they were ground and polished to give them their final shape.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 54/1948/93
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- argilite
- Common Name
- stone, pecking stone
- Simple Name
- stone
- Production County
- SE North America
- Production Country
- United States of America
- Production Date
- Early Archaic- Early Historic
- Production Year Low
- 7000BP
- Production Year High
- 500BP
