Known as the Language of Technology project, the experiment involves 20 subjects who will each devote 100 hours to learning the art of making a Stone Age hand axe, and also undergo a series of MRI ...

Think of a Stone Age hand axe and you may imagine ... The experts believe that objects such as the axe were ‘deliberately’ stabbed in underground clay as part of a ritual.

A stone ax of the type used more than ... “From the Paleolithic Age to the Renaissance and and beyond, hand axes have been — and continue to be — part of human history.” ...

Kangas et al. concluded from their analysis that the rock's shape and red-to-brown color are remarkably consistent with actual Stone Age hand axes found in the region where Fouquet lived.

While digging into sediment thought to have been part of a tributary of the River Medway from the Middle Pleistocene age, a treasure trove of stone artefacts ... largest hand-axe found in Britain ...

as well as stone and flint axes, scrapers and arrow heads. These early axe heads would have been attached to straight pieces of wood, and sealed with pine resin and beeswax to make some of the ...

What they have discovered convinces them that Gargas’s hand stencils reflect a Stone Age sign language ... from proto-writing with its roots in clay counting tokens that first appeared around ...

By the time his dad got home from work that evening, Gill was standing over a mound of wood shavings and holding a primitive-looking bow in his hand ... tools of our Stone Age ancestors.

“The hand axe–like stone had social significance and the painting now adds to our already complex understanding of the social implications of hand axes across Paleolithic, historic, and modern ...

The skill of making a prehistoric hand axe is "more complicated and nuanced than many people realize," Stout says. "It's not just a bunch of ape-men banging rocks together. We should have respect for ...