Naquada Culture Copper Adze

Description

Adze is one of the most typical Egyptian tools. Used for woodwork, stone cutting, masonry and even helped farmers in everyday agricultural activities. During Naqada period such objects were very often found in graves in a toolkit sets together with axe and chisel. 3D model was made as a part of the project financed under the National Science Center of Poland grant UMO-2014/15/N/HS3/01144 "The comparative analyses of Early Bronze Age Egyptian and Southern Levantine copper tools including the influences from the Arabian Peninsula and Mesopotamia region".