Think of a Stone Age hand axe and you may imagine a simple teardrop shape hewn from flint. But archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered a rare 5,500-year old axe complete with its wooden handle ...

Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered an incredibly rare find: a stone age axe held within its wooden handle. The 5,500-year-old Neolithic axe was found during archaeological surveys ahead of a ...

What's a Stone Age axe doing in an Iron Age tomb? Archaeologists are now researching older objects in younger graves and they have found a pattern. "If one finds something once, it's accidental ...

Most of the hand axes produced by the modern hands and minds of the study subjects would not have cut it in the Stone Age. "They weren't up to the high standards of 500,000 years ago," Stout says.

Emory experimental archaeologists are looking for at least 20 healthy individuals willing to devote 100 hours over about four months to learn the art of making a Stone Age hand ax. Participants ...

Archaeologists in Morocco have announced the discovery of North Africa’s oldest Stone Age hand-axe manufacturing site, dating back 1.3 million years, an international team reported on Wednesday.

A Stone Age axe has been unearthed by archaeological students during a dig in Ceredigion. A team from the University of Wales discovered the Neolithic artefact during a three-week excavation in ...

The stone axe measured 15.5cm in length, 11cm in width and 5.5cm in thickness was found.” This tool was bi-facial and double convex hand-axe of the Paleolithic age and used by the ancients as a ...

Stone Age axe discovered complete with its WOODEN handle: 5,500-year-old tool may have been left as a ritual offering. Neolithic tool was revealed during a dig to prepare for a tunnel; ...