The grooved axe was another essential item that the Indians used for their survival in the southern part of the United States. The axe was formed with durable river rocks. These tools were made to make life easier while chopping up wood for fire, huts, and other objects they needed to make. If this tool was not ever constructed by the Indians than they would not be able to live in this part of the world, the southern part of the United States. The South was a vast land of woods which means that the Indians would need a tool to be able to make paths to explore more land to occupy. This tool was also used to hammer objects into place as mentioned in an article by Rodney Peck saying, "The butt or poll end is asymmetrical and was no doubt much longer originally and battered down from use in driving stakes and other heavy work, and was no doubt reshaped" (p. 6) proving thath it was not only used in chopping and splitting wood. Someone would just flip it over to the back side and swing it at the object.