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 ...

Cutting tools known as Acheulean hand axes, made by Homo erectus and other early human species from about 1.76 million to 130,000 years ago, represent humanity’s most enduring technology.

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 ...

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 Acheulean's origin was pushed back further by at least 55,000 years to 1.815-1.823 million years ago. Early stone tool technologies, such as the Oldowan and Acheulean, ...

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 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 ...

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.