This axe, discovered in 1859, was the first strong evidence that we have been here for much longer. It is thought to be around 400,000 years old and, since then, even older stone tools have been ...

A trip to a museum years later showed him that what he really had was likely a Neanderthal hand axe. Experts believe the flint axe was carved between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago. It’s not so ...

Ella Egberts (VUB) traveled to Iraq in November and December as part of a pilot project to search for archaeological surface ...

You might be mistaken for thinking that this is just a lump of rock, but in fact it's a very carefully-shaped tool called a hand axe, made out of flint. These tools were made a very, very long ...