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Early (Stone Age) hammers were usually an oval or somewhat hourglass-shaped rock, leather-strapped to a wooden stick handle that split into a 'Y' shape to receive the head. The later renditions had a hole in the head of the hammer for the handle to stick through.

A four-inch diameter hardwood tree trunk could be used for a hammer head, with a one or one and a half inch stick used as a handle.

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