| Abstract: |
Stone axes with only one shoulder or with a foot-shaped blade are very seldom discovered in Southeast Asian archaeology, and were mainly regarded as accidental forms or waste products . However, it seems we have it to do with an interesting asymmetrical type which occurs in addition to the classical shoulder and quadrangular axes during the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC, particularly in North Vietnam and Southern China. The possibility of a connection with the asymmetrical bronze axes, which occur at about 1.000 BC, is demonstrated.
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