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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stone Age axe discovered during dig in Talsarn. Image source, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Image caption, ...

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.

The Hohle Fels baton, made from 15 pieces of ivory unearthed in 2015. H. Jensen, University of Tübingen. A roughly 35,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk found in 2015 was used by early humans as a ...

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 ...