haft
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The team used it to successfully haft two flint arrowheads to wooden handles.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 22, 2024
Durkhanai Ayubi laughed as she recalled peeling walnuts as a child for haft mewa, a beloved Nowruz dish of her native Afghanistan.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
And, of course, there is haft mewa, full of nuts and dried fruit for prosperity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
UC Riverside led by as many as 13 points in the second haft, but Washington cut it to 44-38 with 9:03 remaining.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 1, 2020
Thor held the haft of his hammer with a hand that was covered with golden rings.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
In unearthed knife hafts shaped like seals, in villagers’ stories of cranes and walruses, the human and natural coalesce.
From Nature ● Sep. 15, 2019
Some horns are used in alternative medicine that has no effect; others are turned into the hafts of ornate knives or other decorative artifacts.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2018
William and Anders nearly broke the shovel hafts prying the oblong thing from the earth.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2016
White knife hafts are sawed out of them for the cutlers.”
From Scientific American ● Nov. 22, 2011
One hit the doorpost of the hall, another stuck in the door’s thick timbering, still others rang on the stone wall, shivering hafts of ash.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
One of the most remarkable discoveries at Xigou was evidence of hafted stone tools, representing the earliest known composite tools in East Asia.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
The study 'Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000-72,000 years ago' has been published in Nature Communications.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
There, archaeologists found two pieces of flint encased in birch tar residue, indicating the flint pieces were once hafted to other objects.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 22, 2024
But at Lomekwi, where Kenyanthropus was found, Harmand and her team unearthed crude stone tools from 3.3 million years ago, early enough for either Kenyanthropus or an Australopithecus to have hafted them.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
Stonesnake gestured at the long- hafted axe that lay beside her sleeping furs.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
In particular, birch tar would have helped them attach stone blades or points to wooden handles, a technique known as hafting.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Neanderthals in Italy may also have used pine tree resin for hafting 50,000 years ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2019
The manner of hafting them is quite clear, as a few hafted examples have been found.
From The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey
There were one or two stone hammers, grooved for hafting, like the ax.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
Many of the axes were grooved for hafting; one of the specimens was doubly grooved and had two cutting edges.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
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