Archeologists turn up evidence that ancient humans used stone axes earlier than thought. ... Hand axe found to be prehistoric tool of the trade. August 31, 2011 / 2:24 PM EDT / AP ...

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 ...

A stone hand axe could always use a few accessories. An improbable new set of tools combines two state-of-the-art technologies that were created 1.8 million years apart: Prehistoric hand axes and ...

These aren't your average prehistoric stone tools — they also have 500,000-year-old elephant residue on them. Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University found "hand axes" and "scrapers" among ...

Gray stone celt, which is a tool shaped like a chisel or an axe head. The stone tool would have been attached to a wooden handle to use like an axe. This object was collected by Israel Hopkins Harris ...

The ability to make a Lower Paleolithic hand axe depends on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, including the 'central executive' function of working memory, a new study finds. The ...

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. Price Database ...

They had everything that prehistoric people needed.” Hundreds of hand axes were uncovered by the archaeologists—the so-called “Swiss army knife of the Paleolithic.” ...

NALGONDA: A polished stone axe made of black basalt from the Neolithic period, dating back to around 4000 BCE, was found at Gundrampalli in Chityal mandal. The prehistoric stone tool, measuring 15 ...

In addition, three stone axes—possibly originating from prehistoric axe production sites in the heart of the Lake District—had previously been found in and near the stone circle, the latest in ...

Prehistoric axe. According to his description, the axe has a rounded trapezoidal shape, is 6.1 centimetres long, 3.9 centimetres wide and 1.6 centimetres high, and weighs 65 grams.

The ability to make a Lower Paleolithic hand axe depends on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, including the "central executive" function of working memory, a new study finds. PLoS ...