Our human ancestors may have been sophisticated tool users 1.76 million years ago. Newly discovered hand axes from that period are the oldest examples of the complex Acheulean culture, 350,000 ...

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 ...

Beginning more than 1.5 million years ago, early humans made stone hand axes in a style known as the Acheulean—the longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory.

THE SEQUENCE OF TYPES IN STONE IMPLEMENTS IN RHODESIA.-Stone implements in South Africa exhibit two definitely demarcated periods of human habitation, one characterised by hand axes of Chellean or ...

The early Acheulean ~1.6-1.2 Ma from Gona, Ethiopia : issues related to the emergence of the Acheulean in Africa / Sileshi Semaw, Michael J. Rogers, Isabel Cáceres, Dietrich Stout, and Amanda C. Leiss ...

Humans shaped stone axes 1.8 million years ago, study says. A new study suggests that Homo erectus, a precursor to modern humans, was using advanced toolmaking methods in East Africa 1.8 million ...