Axe
Seven Mid-Archaic Age Stone Axe Venerations: The Intersection of Form and Function together with Native Copper and the Adornment of Select Locations on the Cultural Landscape in Southeastern Wisconsin
By: HERMAN BENDER – A curious discovery during the comprehensive WEPCO cultural landscape survey (1995) in southeastern Wisconsin was the number of remarkable, isolated and lone stone axes discovered while plowing and disking fields. No other artifacts were discovered with them. Each axe, it appeared, had been purposely placed in order to mark a select…