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

General 2 nd
millennium
(n=89)
Shaft-hole adze = 4 (1.2%)
Shaft-hole ax = 16 (4.7%)
Single/flat adze = 2 (0.6%)
Single/flat ax = 15 (4.5%)
Trunnion/lugged ax = 34 (10.1%)
Stone cutting tool? = 1 (0.3%)
Wedge tool or ax = 1 (0.3%)
Chisel = 55 (61.8%)
Chisel, socketed = 8 (9%)
Double ax = 2 (1.9%)
Drill = 3 (2.9%)
Shaft-hole ax = 5 (5.6%)
Single/flat ax = 3 (3.4%)
Trunnion/lugged ax = 13 (14.6%)
Large - palatial or major urban center =16
Medium - secondary to palace = 1
Minor - rural unimpressive setting = 24
Known only from stray finds = 48
Hoard = 10
Burial = 15
Settlement = 25
Unstratified, unknown = 39
Figure 3.31f – Syria-Palestine Carpentry/Masonry tools
Carpentry/masonry tool types: Distribution of tools by site size Tool distribution by context type
MBA Chisel = 13 (15.7%)
Large - palatial or major urban center =76 Hoard = 35
(n=83) Double ax = 1 (1.2%)
Medium - secondary to palace = 1
Burial = 17
Saw = 3 (3.6%)
Minor - rural unimpressive setting = 6 Settlement = 12
Shaft-hole ax = 15 (18.1%)
Sanctuary = 2
Single/flat ax = 48 (58.5%)
Trunnion/lugged ax = 2 (2.4%)
Gouge = 1 (1.2%)
Unstratified, unknown =17
LBA Ax-adze = 2 (1.7%)
Large - palatial or major urban center = 107 Hoard = 40
(n=121) Ax-hammer = 1 (0.8%)
Medium - secondary to palace = 1
Settlement = 68
Chisel = 27 (22.3%)
Minor - rural unimpressive setting = 13 Burial = 2
Chisel, socketed = 1 (0.8%)
Sanctuary = 3
Double ax = 2 (1.7%)
Unstratified, unknown =6
Drill = 4 (3.3%)
Saw = 1 (0.8%)
Shaft hole adze = 9 (7.4%)
Shaft hole ax = 8 (6.6%)
Single/flat ax = 58 (47.9%)
Trunnion/lugged ax = 8 (6.6%)
Shipwreck = 2
Chisel = 10 (16.7%) Large - palatial or major urban center =59 Settlement = 59
General 2 nd
millennium
436