ABSTRACT
In chapter 3, we saw how the choreography of procurement and production may have helped to sustain the association of axes with people, and with specific fields of social and economic practice. Carried and used on a day-to-day basis, these markers of personal identity were also drawn upon in varied ways. As elements in formal deposits, the cultural biographies of axes would have shaped the ways in which certain rites or practices were understood. Similarly, as media for exchange, the movement of axes would have contributed to the reproduction of the bonds which linked communities in broader corporate structures.
