Hands to the Grindstone

Richard Donkin

Chapter Chapter 1 in The History of Work, 2010, pp 1-13 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Some years ago on a hike in the English Lake District with my two eldest sons, we struck out off the path to climb a scree slope on the southern side of Pike O’ Stickle, a conical peak near the head of the Langdale Valley. The steep slope is covered in shards of hard blue rock. Some of the pieces have distinctive chips down a narrow edge, signs that they were once worked by a human hand. These are the discards from a Stone Age axe quarry sited where the hard rock outcrops near the peak.

Keywords: Early Hominid; Scree Slope; English Lake District; Early Society; Olduvai Gorge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230282179_1

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