- A hand axe (or
handaxe or
Acheulean hand axe) is a
prehistoric stone tool with two
faces that is the longest-used tool in
human history. It is made from...
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Selection as an
Explanation of
Handaxe Morphology" (PDF). PaleoAnthropology: 77–88.
Retrieved 20 May 2023. "The
Acheulean Handaxe". Welsh,
Jennifer (1 March...
- The
Saltley handaxe is a
quartzite hand axe
found in the
gravels of the
valley of the
River Rea in the
Saltley area of Birmingham,
England in 1890. Believed...
- bout-coupé is a type of
handaxe that
constituted part of the
Neanderthal Mousterian industry of the
Middle Palaeolithic. The
handaxes are bifacially-worked...
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which Bagford accepted the
human origin of the
handaxe. With
other items from Conyers' collection, the
handaxe p****ed to the
collection of Sir Hans Sloane...
- to "non-
handaxe" and "
handaxe" sites.
Handaxes came into use at
about the 500,000 ya mark. Non-
handaxe sites are
often the same
sites as
handaxe sites,...
- In archaeology, a
lithic flake is a "portion of rock
removed from an
objective piece by
percussion or pressure,": 255 and may also be
referred to as simply...
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humans had
butchered the
animals with
stone tools. In 2000, a
black flint handaxe,
dating to
between 600,000 and 800,000
years ago, was
found by a man walking...
- A
ficron handaxe is the name
given to a type of
prehistoric stone tool
biface with long,
curved sides and a pointed, well-made tip. They are
found in...
- Britain.
Dated and
shown to be 500,000
years old, it is
amongst the
oldest handaxes ever
discovered in the UK.
Analysis of
pollen in the silt
allowed the archaeologists...
