- 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...
- 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,...
- industry, and the use of
handaxes is
known in
Britain both
before (such as at the
Boxgrove site) and
after the Clactonian, with
handaxes also
suggested to be...
- 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...
-
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...
-
amount of
Palaeolithic handaxes were
discovered during industrial quarrying to the west side of Fordwich. In total,
these handaxes numbered some 330 pieces...
