Tom Breukel analysed some 250 stone axes from the Caribbean and reconstructed their biographies, thus increasing our knowledge of production and trade in the period around the arrival of Columbus. His ...

In this video, I start building a new hut using locally sourced materials, including wood. I discuss the benefits of a stone axe head attached to a wooden handle and the handleless stone axe, which ...

What's a Stone Age axe doing in an Iron Age tomb? Archaeologists are now researching older objects in younger graves and they have found a pattern. "If one finds something once, it's accidental. If it ...

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 ...

In the Neolithic age stone axes were produced in large quantities in what is now the Lake District area.This stone axe, dating to around 3000 BC was discovered at Scaleby Moss, Carlisle and is an ...

Stone Age era hand axes, long thought to be simple tools early humans created without needing higher-order brain functions, are in fact the result of complex cognition, a new study suggests. Stone ...

A stone ax of the type used more than 500,000 years ago has been spotted in an unexpected place — a painting from the 15th century. Typically made from flint, “Acheulean” hand axes were oval- or ...

Hyderabad: Paleolithic tools, including a stone axe, were found in a stream between Gurrevula and Bhupathipuram villages in Telangana’s Mulugu district. History enthusiasts of Kotha Telangana Charitra ...

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 ...