A Quantitative Comparison of Efficiency between a Stone Axe and a Steel Axe | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core (original) (raw)
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
Izumi Shimada
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Abstract
A comparison of the efficiency of a stone axe and steel axe showed that the stone axe takes over six times as long and requires over five times as much energy to accomplish the same work as does the steel axe.
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1971
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