The researchers found that an Acheulean handaxe appears to have been represented in the left panel. In the painting, Chevalier is depicted wearing a crimson robe with his hands folded together as ...

"Identifying a 15th century painting of a handaxe does not change what we know about Acheulean individuals," the authors concluded. "What our finding does is push back securely attributed evidence ...

Characterised by symmetrically knapped stones or large flakes (known as bifaces), the Acheulean is the first sophisticated handaxe technology known in the early human settlement record of Europe.

When an Acheulean-like handaxe, a Paleolithic period tool, which was the cutting-edge tool of Hominins back in the Stone Age, was found in Korea by Greg Bowen, a young US airman who in 1978 was ...

So what is enigmatic about these Acheulean handaxes ... aver that handaxes were imbued with aesthetic power? 1) The handaxe form was ‘overdetermined.’ Quite simply, more effort was put ...

"Despite the scarcity, discovery of the finely made Konso bone handaxe shows that refinement of flaking technology in the early Acheulean involved both stone and bone and provides additional ...

Before the Middle Stone Age, humans lived in the Early Stone Age, an era characterized by the popular Acheulean stone handaxe. The new studies explore the environmental, ecological, and ...