A History of Agriculture in India v1.c6.123

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121. A stone-axe was reconstructed by mounting the Neolithic flint head on a copy of a Neolithic haft preserved at the bottom of a bog in Denmark. It was found that the full swing of the modern woodsman often chipped or broke the head. Using short, rapid strokes, the experimenters learnt to fell trees having a diameter of more than 30 cm in 30 minutes. To fell small trees, they chopped all the way round the trunk (After Johannes Iversen) 229