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  2. Hand axe - Wikipedia

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    A hand axe (or handaxe or Acheulean hand axe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history. [1] It is made from stone, usually flint or chert that has been "reduced" and shaped from a larger piece by knapping , or hitting against another stone.

  3. Acheulean - Wikipedia

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    The type site for the Acheulean is Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens, the capital of the Somme department in Picardy, where artifacts were found in 1859. [3]John Frere is generally credited as being the first to suggest a very ancient date for Acheulean hand-axes.

  4. List of premodern combat weapons - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of historical pre-modern weapons grouped according to their uses, with rough classes set aside for very similar weapons. Some weapons may fit more than one category (e.g. the spear may be used either as a polearm or as a projectile), and the earliest gunpowder weapons which fit within the period are also included.

  5. 9-year-old boy finds 60,000-year-old axe at Shoreham Beach in ...

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    The item turned out to be a hand axe from the late Middle Paleolithic period, an era dating back between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago, according to a Nov. 21 Facebook post by Worthing Museum.

  6. Axe - Wikipedia

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    Bronze socketed axe from the Heppeneert hoard (Belgium), about 800 BCE, collection of the King Baudouin Foundation, Gallo-Roman Museum (Tongeren) Roman axes in an ancient Roman relief in Brescia, Italy Shang dynasty axe. Hand axes, of stone, and used without handles (hafts) were the first axes. They had knapped (chipped) cutting edges of flint ...

  7. Gray's Inn Lane Hand Axe - Wikipedia

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    The hand axe is a fine example from about 350,000 years ago, in the Lower Paleolithic period, but its main significance lies in the role it and the circumstances of its excavation played in the emerging understanding of early human history.

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