- R.T.; Mithen, S.J. (June 2007). "Why are some
handaxes symmetrical?
Testing the
influence of
handaxe morphology on
butchery effectiveness".
Journal of...
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stone was
worked symmetrically and on both sides. For the
latter reason,
handaxes are,
along with cleavers,
bifacially worked tools that
could be manufactured...
- 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...
- industry, and the use of
handaxes is
known in
Britain both
before (such as at Boxgrove) and
after the Clactonian, with
handaxes also
suggested to be found...
- 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...
-
Mithen SJ.
Testing the
functional utility of
handaxe symmetry:
fallow deer
butchery with
replica handaxes. Lithics: The
Journal of the
Lithic Studies Society...
-
Flint was the
first mineral collected and used to make tools, and
flint handaxes are the
earliest pieces of
evidence of
habitation in the Nile valley. Nodules...
- Asia left
Africa before the
handaxe was developed.
Alternatively the
settlers moving to Asia may have
known how to make
handaxes but p****ed
through a 'technological...
