- 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...
-
Selection as an
Explanation of
Handaxe Morphology" (PDF). PaleoAnthropology: 77–88.
Retrieved 20 May 2023. "The
Acheulean Handaxe". Welsh,
Jennifer (1 March...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Mildenhall, Vale of York and
Water Newton, (4th–10th
centuries AD) Room 2 –
Handaxe,
Lower Palaeolithic,
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, c. 1.2 million
years BC Room...
- bout-coupé is a type of
handaxe that
constituted part of the
Neanderthal Mousterian industry of the
Middle Palaeolithic. The
handaxes are bifacially-worked...
- 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...
-
which Bagford accepted the
human origin of the
handaxe. With
other items from Conyers' collection, the
handaxe p****ed to the
collection of Hans Sloane, whose...
- the (globally)
contemporaneous Acheulean industry by its lack of use of
handaxe tools. It is
named after finds made by
Samuel Hazzledine Warren in a palaeochannel...
- by the
thinner and more
symmetrical handaxes which bear more
flaking scars. Some
sites have much
smaller handaxes which might fall
under the
African Middle...
