Ground Stone Artifacts | The Office of the State Archaeologist
The process by which ground stone tools are manufactured is a laborintensive, time-consuming method of repeated pecking and grinding with a harder stone, followed by polishing with sand, using water as a lubricant. The form of a stone axe was created by pecking with a hard hammerstone. In North America, axes, celts, gouges, mauls, plummets, and ...
