Adzes have a carved wooden handle lashed to a metal blade. Before the arrival of Europeans the blades of adzes were made of stone. Why do you think people would adopt this new style of adze blades?

a wooden cast for making mud bricks, two chisels, two stones containing Hatshepsut's cartouches (ovals with hieroglyphs representing a ruler's name), and an adze, which is a tool used for cutting ...

An adze, a tool used to cut and shape wood, a wooden hammer, two chisels, a wooden cast model for making mud bricks, and two stones, were among the artifacts found at the site. It was built by ...