Hammerstones
Dublin Core
Title
Hammerstones
Subject
Artifacts
Description
Prehistoric Virginia Indians used hammerstones, like these ones found at a site in Orange County in the northern Piedmont, to create stone tools. The rounded sides of a hammerstone were ideal for knocking flakes off of another stone. Archaeologists can tell a hammerstone apart from other natural cobbles by identifying use wear marks, like the dark lines on the left stone in the photo, that do not occur in nature.
Source
Bill Speiden
Date
1200 B.C.E. - 1600 C.E.
Format
.JPG, 1765 × 1187
Type
Image
Coverage
Orange County
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photograph
Physical Dimensions
4 x 6 "
Files
Citation
“Hammerstones,” Virginia Indian Archive, accessed August 12, 2022, https://www.virginiaindianarchive.org/items/show/378.