Hand axe found to be prehistoric tool of the trade. August 31, 2011 / 2:24 PM EDT / AP LOS ANGELES - Ancient humans fashioned hand axes, cleavers and picks much earlier than believed, but ...

A paper in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal suggests a 15th-century diptych depicts St. Steven carrying a prehistoric hand-axe. The object depicted was long thought to be a stone.

Two giant hand axes have been uncovered in prehistoric sediment in England. The tools, which are more than 300,000-year-old, are so big they are difficult to handle.

A stone celt is a prehistoric axe made of a sharpened stone wedged into a hole bored in a piece of wood. Sounds simple, right? Well, building a tool by hand is an arduous process that demands ...

The prehistoric hand axe gets a 21st century makeover: Designers combine world’s oldest tool with modern technology. Tel-Aviv based designers have re-imagined a tool from 1.4 million years ago; ...

Two giant hand axes have been uncovered in prehistoric sediment in England. The tools, which are more than 300,000-year-old, are so big they are difficult to handle.

Researchers in Kent, England, have unearthed 800 prehistoric artifacts, including two “giant hand axes” believed to be more than 300,000 years old. A team from University College London (UCL ...

An exceptionally high density of giant hand axes dated to 200,000-300,000 years ago has been uncovered at an archaeological site in Galicia, northwest Spain.

A thick and sturdy leg bone. "The Prehistoric Tibia is an Artifact item used in the Museum. Gunther may also make a request on the Special Orders Board for 100x Bone Items as part of his Fragments ...

The tools are typical of the ancient Acheulian culture, characterized by its distinct oval- and tear-shaped hand axes associated with early humans. According to Mayaan Shemer, the IAA’s excavation ...

These Acheulean stone hand axes have been around for more than 1.6 million years and are a common archaeological find, although before the 17th century, they were not thought to be human-created ...

Related: 54,000-year-old stone points are oldest evidence of bows and arrows in Europe While the axes' exact purpose is unknown, it's likely that they "would have been used as cutting tools for ...