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Why so many ancients made axes out of green stone

Eleanor Konik
May 25, 2021
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Woodworking scraps. Photo by Lum3n from Pexels.

A character in the short story I'm working on is a woodworker. Since he's working with Bronze Age technology and about to flee his homeland because the priests are exploiting his girlfriend, I figured he would want to take his tools with him. So then I had to figure out what kinds of tools he would probably have...

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