Comparative IMPLEMENTOLOGY

TUBUAI ARTIFACTS
Important Stone Tool Discoveries
Large 'Horned' 1A Adzes, click on this image .... to see a full size Front view,
see also the - Side view (these TUBUAI adzes are remarkably similar to Wairau Bar and Hurunui examples!)

Plano-convex Adze (gouge), Duff Type 4 Variety C,

Huge! 3Ba Adze (reproduced full size 284K) see also an illustration of a normal sized 3Ba Adze, 453-281-3Ba-1

Early 1A Adze (shades of Pitcairn!), 453-139-1Aa see New Zealand example in the Motukarara Cache (R. S. Duff, 1940 J.P.S. 49, Fig. 2, Page 297)

Small 2A Adze (Samoan Type IV subtype a) compare this with an early Moa Hunter example illustrated by H. D. Skinner, 1924 J.P.S. 33 Shag River Excavations Fig. 13

Coffin shaped 3C Adze another Moa Hunter Classic

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