Where did the double headed axe come from? what was it used for?
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Woodsmen almost always used a single bladed axe.  The axe I think you mean is a double bladed (sometimes called a double headed) axe.  This is a type of battle axe (also called a Labrys).  It has been used since the Minoan culture of the 2nd millennium BC, and perhaps before.  Very common with Greek military, and passed to the Romans.  Used two handed, it could (like a double edged sword) cut in either direction of swing.
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Weapons were invented before we have records. Simple weapons such as spears, rock axes and bows and arrows were used in hunting from the Stone Age. Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone. For example, flint and chert were shaped for use as cutting tools and weapons, while basalt and sandstone were used for ground stone tools, such as quern-stones. Wood, bone, shell, antler and other materials were widely used, too. During the most recent part of the period, sediments like clay were used to make pottery. A series of metal technology innovations characterize the later Copper Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Homo Erectus is known to have developed hand axes a million years ago. Arrows date back to 20,000 BC.\n\nThe first firearm was the arquebus which was introduced in the 15th century. The arquebus came into greater prominence during the Battle of Pavia in 1525. The defeat of French knights by the heavy fire of Spanish arquebusiers inspired other people to adopt the weapon. Arquebusiers also played an important role in Cristóvão da Gama's battles against the superior numbers of his Muslim opponents in Ethiopia during the 1540s, and later in the Moroccan victory over the Songhai Empire at the Battle of Tondibi in 1590.\n\nBy the later 16th century, muskets began to slowly replace the arquebus across Europe. Firearms have steadily been improving since.
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u  whos says you only use an axe for war.....
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double edged dagger\n\nbodkin
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If you get a double-bladed axehead, you can swing both ways!
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It DOES originate from the item a man would have been allowed to beat his wife with. If the item was smaller than his thumb, then he could beat her with it, but anything bigger than his thumb was not allowed!
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Lacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stickball games being played by American Indians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it is distinguished from the others, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and convey it into or past a goal to score a point. The cardinal rule in all varieties of lacrosse was that the ball, with few exceptions, must not be touched with the hands.\n\nEarly data on lacrosse, from missionaries such as French Jesuits in Huron country in the 1630s and English explorers, such as Jonathan Carver in the mid-eighteenth century Great Lakes area, are scant and often conflicting. They inform us mostly about team size, equipment used, the duration of games and length of playing fields but tell us almost nothing about stickhandling, game strategy, or the rules of play. The oldest surviving sticks date only from the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and the first detailed reports on Indian lacrosse are even later. George Beers provided good information on Mohawk playing techniques in his Lacrosse (1869), while James Mooney in the American Anthropologist (1890) described in detail the "[Eastern] Cherokee Ball-Play," including its legendary basis, elaborate rituals, and the rules and manner of play.\n\nGiven the paucity of early data, we shall probably never be able to reconstruct the history of the sport. Attempts to connect it to the rubber-ball games of Meso-America or to a perhaps older game using a single post surmounted by some animal effigy and played together by men and women remain speculative. As can best be determined, the distribution of lacrosse shows it to have been played throughout the eastern half of North America, mostly by tribes in the southeast, around the western Great Lakes, and in the St. Lawrence Valley area. Its presence today in Oklahoma and other states west of the Mississippi reflects tribal removals to those areas in the nineteenth century. Although isolated reports exist of some form of lacrosse among northern California and British Columbia tribes, their late date brings into question any widespread diffusion of the sport on the west coast.\n\nOn the basis of the equipment, the type of goal used and the stick-handling techniques, it is possible to discern three basic forms of lacrosse—the southeastern, Great Lakes, and Iroquoian. Among southeastern tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Yuchi and others), a double-stick version of the game is still practiced. A two-and-a half foot stick is held in each hand, and the soft, small deerskin ball is retrieved and cupped between them. Great Lakes players (Ojibwe, Menominee, Potawatomi, Sauk, Fox, Miami, Winnebago, Santee Dakota and others) used a single three-foot stick. It terminates in a round, closed pocket about three to four inches in diameter, scarcely larger than the ball, which was usually made of wood, charred and scraped to shape. The northeastern stick, found among Iroquoian and New England tribes, is the progenitor of all present-day sticks, both in box as well as field lacrosse. The longest of the three—usually more than three feet—it was characterized by its shaft ending in a sort of crook and a large, flat triangular surface of webbing extending as much as two-thirds the length of the stick. Where the outermost string meets the shaft, it forms the pocket of the stick.\n\nLacrosse was given its name by early French settlers, using the generic term for any game played with a curved stick (crosse) and a ball. Native terminology, however, tends to describe more the technique (cf. Onondaga DEHUNTSHIGWA'ES, "men hit a rounded object") or, especially in the southeast, to underscore the game's aspects of war surrogacy ("little brother of war"). There is no evidence of non-Indians taking up the game until the mid-nineteenth century, when English-s
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I believe at-latl spearthrowers may still be used by tribal peoples in South America to some small extent.\nI'm not sure African or Aboriginie tribes ever used them at all.\nAt the Parkin archelogical dig near West Memphis Ar. you can try one out for yourself. They are amazingly powerful and accurate.
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Through out history, humans have enjoyed kicking a ball or something like a ball. South American Indians were known to use a light elasticized ball. However; rubber was not to be practically manufactured until a few thousand years later. \n\nAccording to historical references and legend, early balls ranged from human heads, stitched up cloth, animal and human skulls to pig or cow bladders.\n\nDuring the Ts'in and Han Dynasties (255 BC-220 AD), the Chinese played 'tsu chu', in which animal-skin balls were dribbled through gaps in a net stretched between two poles. Certain ancient Egyptian rites are said by historians to have similarities with football, and both the ancient Greeks and Romans also played a game that entailed carrying and kicking a ball.\n\nAccording to pre-medieval legend, an entire village would kick a skull along a path to a nearby village square.  The opposing village would in turn attempt to kick the skull to the first village's square.  Wow, that probably caused more riots than in modern soccer games. \n\nA Medieval custom was to take pig bladders used from live stock killed in preparation for winter sustenance and inflate them. They would play a game using their feet and hands to keep the "ball" in the air. Sounds like hacky sack to me.\n\nThe animal bladder balls were eventually covered with leather for better shape retention.
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I have heard it was referring to their use of the Ewe tree for bows and arrows, and when some people were caught they had fingers cut off, except for the middle fingers. They would taught their captors while shooting them saying "see! we can still pluck Ewe!"  True story, I heard it in my anthropology class.
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try this link it's got loads http://www.arkeodok.com/Skeletons/pages/Executed2.html\nand good for you! that sound like a really interesting job.
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Precision cutting slices two genuine quarters in half so two heads are obtained, the two heads are then carefully placed together making a double headed quarter, aka Two Headed Quarter. \n\n\nhttp://www.prankplace.com/quarter.htm
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to show you had no weapons-also is how left handed people got called evil because they could shake your hand and still have a weapon-keep the peace old hippie
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Who invented the actual match? shoot, probably jack tunney....I remember that brutus beefcake had one against don morocco.....that was like in the 70's......I think....raven almost got scalped when he lost one in Tna.......eek, gorgeous george was in one sometime in the 60's.....but maybe it was invented before that\n\nto tell you the honest truth I think the natives invented cutting peoples hair off at the end of a battle.....and the rest of the top of their heads as well.
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What kind of hacking are we talking about? Computer or with an axe?
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The word "piggyback," as in, "Honey, it's my turn to get a piggyback tonight," derives from the terms "pickpack," "pickback," and even "pick-a-pack," all used in the 17th century to indicate the act of hoisting something onto someone's back for carrying. According to the Random House Word of the Day, most etymologists assume "pick" is a variant of the verb "to pitch," meaning "to throw." "Pack" refers to items meant for carrying.\n\nBut how did the piggy grunt its way into the mix? Did giant domesticated hogs, back in the day, do the work of packhorses? No, what we have here, apparently, is a failure to communicate: a textbook case of folk etymology, in which a word is modified to something more common or easily understood when the original term has become obsolete, and thus devoid of meaning. Some examples of folk etymology at work, according to Wikipedia, are the evolving of the words "shamefast" into "shamefaced," "buttonhole into "buttonhold," and "sweetard" into "sweatheart." (But there's no truth to the rumor that Ask Yahoo! used to be called "Axe Yahoos," back in the dot-com downturn days.)
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Who says they did? Before metal was introduced, people were happily killing each other with wooden methods and rocks. Metal just made the killing easier and faster.