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The axe from Kajamaa village was hafted with juniper or spruce wood and the axes from Astangu and Karasi villages with ash wood.

The study, 'Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology,' is published in the journal Science.

Experts say an axe is generally deemed to be a palstave if it is hafted by means of a forked wooden handle kept in place with high, cast flanges and stop bar.

Hafted weapons in medieval and Renaissance Europe; the evolution of European staff weapons between 1200 and 1650.

Near the bases of the same artifacts are worn areas where the sharpened stones apparently were hafted to spears, Shea says.