The object depicted was long thought to be a stone. A close-up of "The Melun Diptych", ca. 1455, Jean Fouquet. Courtesy Steven Kangas and authors. The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An archeologist measures the biggest of two "giant" prehistoric hand axes uncovered in the south of England.Archaeology South-East ...

Rare hand axes from the Sakhnin Valley show Homo erectus picked fossil- and crystal-rich stones for visual appeal, hinting at ...

Even our earliest human ancestors made and used technology — something we can look back on thanks to the lasting nature of stone tools. An exceptionally high density of giant hand axes dated to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iraq has a rich historical legacy, but it often goes unnoticed due to conflicts. Archaeologists have found a large collection of ...

Lower Paleolithic stone tools, including hand axes and a flake tool, were discovered along the Manchirevula forest track near ...

The Royal Commission for AlUla’s research teams in northwestern Saudi Arabia, continue to unravel ancient mysteries, discovering what is believed to be the largest stone “hand axe” found anywhere in ...

Researchers from University College London's Institute of Archaeology have uncovered a cache of 800 stone artefacts dating to more than 300,000 years ago. The find includes one of the largest ...

"The Melun Diptych" (circa 1455) by Jean Fouquet in an exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany. Since ancient times, people working in the fields occasionally stumbled over strange-looking ...

Maayan Shemer, excavation director for the Israel Antiquities Authority, showing a half-million year-old hand axe. An astonishing discovery in Jaljulia, an Israeli-Arab town in Israel near Kfar Saba ...

An "incredible discovery" and a "chance finding" is how a family have described uncovering a prehistoric hand axe. Mel Harrison picked up the hand-sized flintstone which tour guide Martin Simpson ...

Was it the evolution of the hand, or of the brain, that enabled prehistoric toolmakers to make the leap from striking off simple flakes of rock to fashioning a sophisticated hand axe? A new study ...