XOCHIACA, MexicoXOCHIACA, Mexico — The sound of hammers and chisels striking stone rings out on most Sundays in the cemetery of ancient Xochiaca, a village swallowed up decades ago by the urban sprawl ...

A chisel is a hand tool with a characteristic wedge-shaped cutting edge at the end of its blade. A chisel is useful for carving or cutting hard material such as wood, stone, or metal. Stone chisels ...

With limestone, there's no sanding or polishing; the mark of the chisel is evident. At this year's Indiana Limestone Symposium at Bybee Stone Co. in Ellettsville, the stone you will carve, the tools ...

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