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.

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 ...

LOS ANGELES - Ancient humans fashioned hand axes, cleavers and picks much earlier than believed, but didn't take the stone tools along when they left Africa, new research suggests.

A Stone Age hand axe is found by archaeologists at a building site in Gloucestershire. ... Moreton-in-Marsh Stone Age axe find leads to seaside theory. Published. 23 November 2011. Share. close panel.

Stone Age hand axe site dating back 1.3 million years discovered in Morocco . Topic: Archaeology. Thu 29 Jul 2021 Thursday 29 July 2021 Thu 29 Jul 2021 at 2:16am.

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 ...

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.

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 Wednesday.

The ability to make a Lower Paleolithic hand axe depends on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, including the 'central executive' function of working memory, a new study finds.

Simple Oldowan stone flakes are the earliest known tools, dating back 2.6 million years. The Late Acheulean hand axe goes back 500,000 years. While it's relatively easy to learn to make an Oldowan ...

The ability to make a Lower Paleolithic hand axe depends on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, including the "central executive" function of working memory, a new study finds. PLoS ...