- 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...
- contexts.
Through geological stratigraphy of
aeolian and
playa sediments,
handaxes found in
stratified contexts have been
dated to the
Middle Pleistocene...
-
University alone has over 250
handaxes from Kariandusi.
Obsidian was the main
material used in
making the
Acheulean handaxes, but lava-based
materials like...
-
Mithen SJ.
Testing the
functional utility of
handaxe symmetry:
fallow deer
butchery with
replica handaxes. Lithics: The
Journal of the
Lithic Studies Society...
-
Speed 1 in Kent
recovered numerous Clactonian flint tools but no
handaxes. As a
handaxe would have been more
useful than a
chopper in
dismembering an elephant...
- bout-coupé is a type of
handaxe that
constituted part of the
Neanderthal Mousterian industry of the
Middle Palaeolithic. The
handaxes are bifacially-worked...
- 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...
