Time Frame: Approximately 10,000 to 3,000 Years Ago

Stone axes, grooved for hafting a wooden handle, first appear at Archaic sites. There were a number of Archaic sites in Iowa including the Cherokee Sewer site and the Simonsen site in Cherokee County, and a site near Pisgah in Harrison County.

Illustrated by Mary Slattery, Will Thomson, and David Crawford
Office of the State Archeologist
Adapted from Office Of The State Archaeologist, Educational Series 2 - Archaic Period