A Woodland Period Maul Head dating to 2500 – 2200 BP. The hafted maul or hammer stone is not an axe form. The hafted maul was carefully pecked and ground to shape and may have seen some special use. Typically, hafted hammers are naturally formed stones that have been slightly altered for hafting. They may weigh several pounds and were used for heavy percussion work like breaking large flakes of flint for the creation of projectile or blade blanks. Broken examples occur in quarry sites where chert was initially broken for later use.
The Maul is part of a collection I purchased over 25 years ago from the nephew of a Professor Johnson at one of the universities in Indiana. The collection numbered over 3000 relics which had been in storage for years as part of his estate. The nephew had inherited the collection from an aunt and had never actually met the professor. The history which I got was passed down from her. During the 1940 – 50's period he would travel the Midwest during the summer months and find the relics, mainly from fields. She said most of the relics were from Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Illinois.
It is 1 1/8” in size.
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Product code: Maul – 2024 Midwest