If these kinds of traces were indeed found on genuine Stone Age ... tools might have been used. So Akira Iwase of Tokyo Metropolitan University and co-authors made their own replicas of adzes and ...

"We describe these tools as ‘giants ... people and how the stone artefacts, including the ‘giant hand-axes’ helped them adapt to the challenges of Ice Age environments." ...

A prehistoric treasure trove of stone axes and tools from the Ice-Age has been discovered in Kent ... One of the items include a giant hand axe, which is around 30cm long. "We describe these ...

A trove of around 800 stone tools, including what archaeologists ... including the ‘giant hand axes’ helped them adapt to the challenges of Ice Age environments.” ...

More than 80 Stone Age ... into tools by hammers of pebble and antler and the tools would have included arrows for hunting with bows in the dense woodland and adzes (similar to an axe but not ...

and is the largest example of a series of stone tools discovered on the site. An ongoing search for comparisons from across the world has not come up with a hand axe of equal size. As such this ...

Two giant prehistoric hand axes, one of which is about a foot long, have been uncovered in deep Ice Age sediments in the south of England. The 300,000-year-old tools, slabs of flint chipped on ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica stone age ... tools that let people craft more and more complex wooden instruments, particularly polished stone axes.

Egberts collected over 850 artifacts, ranging from very old hand axes from the Early or Old Paleolithic to Levallois reduction flakes from the Middle Paleolithic, all surface material.

A stone ax of the type used more than ... Typically made from flint, “Acheulean” hand axes were oval- or pear-shaped tools, flaked on both sides with a pointed end, used to cut meat and ...

The small axes on display in the Worthing Museum’s Stone Age exhibition resembled something ... where experts concluded it was a Neanderthal hand ax—carved by an extinct group of humans ...