Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern ...

occurrence is a definite sign of a tool kit. Compared to the Gelidonya carpentry/masonry
tools, the Uluburun implements lack only single/flat axes and ax-adzes. The Gelidonya
wood- and stone-working utensils (Table 5.4) consist of double axes, single/flat adzes,
single/flat axes, ax-adzes, lugged/trunnion axes and adzes, and four chisel types (narrow,
mortise, cold and socketed). The shaft-hole ax, broad chisel, drill, saw, and plumb bob,
all represented at Uluburun, are absent from Gelidonya. The Gelidonya tools are not as
diverse as the Uluburun repertoire, yet the different Gelidonya chisel types implies a tool
set. The Gelidonya carpentry/masonry tools are a mix of complete and fragmentary
pieces, like many tool accumulations in land hoards. Notwithstanding the incomplete
implements (two double axes, fourteen single/flat adzes and two chisel tips), the
Gelidonya carpentry/masonry tools resemble the older Uluburun assemblage, indicating a
comparable tool kit on both ships.
The existence of knives, razors, awls/engravers, and whetstones on each
shipwreck suggests that other objects were also integrated into the tool kits. These
implements, particularly knives, were common in land hoards, and the surplus of
Gelidonya knives (17 examples) coincides with the quantity of knife blades in several
Aegean hoards like the Anthedon (14), Tsountas (10) and Orchomenos (10) assemblages.
Utilitarian implements were also recovered from Uluburun, though not in the same
quantities as at Gelidonya. The comparison of metal from both wrecks demonstrates that
their carpentry/masonry and utilitarian utensils were virtually identical; only a few items
existed on one ship but not the other.
The similarity of the implements on board two ships—from different centuries—
is not by coincidence; there must have been a common social practice or experience that
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