The Wenquan Paleolithic site in Ruzhou, Central China's Henan Province, has yielded a collection of Acheulean tools, including hand axes, thin-edged axes, and large stone knives. This marks the ...

One such tool was the handaxe, which could be used for chopping ... from Oldowan layers to a very long and complex sequence of Acheulean layers, to Middle Stone Age and eventually by Late Stone ...

As time progressed, around 1.76 million years ago, a significant advancement occurred with the emergence of the Acheulean handaxe. This marked a leap in technological sophistication. Early humans, ...

However, this is no proof per se. “We cannot state with absolute certainty that an Acheulean handaxe was painted by Jean Fouquet c. 1455. What we have done is demonstrate, as far as it is ...

Typically made from flint, “Acheulean” hand axes were oval- or pear-shaped tools, flaked on both sides with a pointed end, used to cut meat and wood as well as to dig for tubers. Prior to the ...

"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 ...

The article by Alastair Key, James Clark, Jeremy DeSilva and Steven Kangas discusses their identification of an ancient Acheulean handaxe in Jean Fouquet's Melun Diptych in the Royal Museum of Fine ...

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 ...

Reference: “On the Discovery of a Late Acheulean ‘Giant’ Handaxe from the Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent” by Letty Ingrey, Sarah M. Duffy, Martin Bates, Andrew Shaw and Matt Pope, 6 July 2023, ...

The team’s paper was published today in the journal Internet Archaeology. L. Ingrey et al. 2023. On the Discovery of a Late Acheulean ‘Giant’ Handaxe from the Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent.