The object depicted was long thought to be a stone. A close-up of "The Melun Diptych", ca. 1455, Jean Fouquet. Courtesy Steven Kangas and authors. The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern ...

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 team from the ...

An archeologist measures the biggest of two "giant" prehistoric hand axes uncovered in the south of England.Archaeology South-East/ UCL Two giant hand axes have been uncovered in prehistoric sediment ...

A reliable hand knife is a necessary tool for any outdoor adventurer, but there are often times when a little more oomph is needed. Colorado's Bone Daddy Blade WerX has come up with a multitool that ...

Europe’s Stone Age has taken an edgy turn. A new analysis finds that human ancestors living in what is now Spain fashioned double-edged stone cutting tools as early as 900,000 years ago, almost twice ...

Researchers from University College London's Institute of Archaeology have uncovered a cache of 800 stone artefacts dating to more than 300,000 years ago. The find includes one of the largest ...

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 team from the ...

A young boy from England found a shiny item on a beach that turned out to be a "rare" ancient item dating back to the late Middle Paleolithic era. The boy — identified by Worthing Museum as Ben Witten ...

Hand axes are fairly common finds at sites dating between 2 million and 1 million years old. These sturdy tools have two sides (also called faces) and a sharp edge at one end. But hand axes are ...

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