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Palaeolithic Acheulian Handaxes from Swanscombe, Kent.
The handaxe appears during the later part of the Hoxnian Interglacial, and remained in use for thousands of years. These implements were probably used as general purpose cutting and digging tools.
The Museum of North Lincolnshire, Scunthorpe
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Large Prehistoric Acheulian Handaxe with Fossil Seashells, Made By One of Man’s Early Ancestors, Homo Erectus
Found in Pont-Arcy, northern France and dating to the Lower Paleolithic, 500,000-200,000 years ago. 17.8cm long
This pear shaped hand axe has been skillfully knapped from a large block of caramel colored flint. What is quite remarkable about this example is the area of the stone which has been left untouched. The maker of this tool clearly had an eye for aesthetic, having left the beautiful fossilized seashells embedded within the cortex.
Acheulian handaxes are thought to demonstrate an important step in the evolution of the hominid brain. To craft a tool of this complexity requires planning and purpose in the mind of the maker. A significant leap from the preceding tools, which were simple pebbles with a few random flakes chipped off.
Reconstruction of the Bilzingsleben site by Libor Balák.
 Refitting of layers of a core from which a biface was knapped
English translation:
"Here are the "guts of a biface". This is in the Museum of Archaeology in Valencia. I imagine that the author is Juan Antonio MarĂn. It's no small work to create a refitting".
En español:
"AsĂ son "las tripas de un bifaz". Esto está en el Museo ArqueolĂłgico de Valencia. Imagino que el autor es Juan Antonio MarĂn. En fin, menudo curro para realizar el remontaje".
(Source: Arqueologia Paleorama en Red)
Humans shaped stone axes 1.8 million years ago, study says
A new study suggests that Homo erectus, a precursor to modern humans, was using advanced toolmaking methods in East Africa 1.8 million years ago, at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought. The study, published this week in Nature, raises new questions about where these tall and slender early humans originated and how they developed sophisticated tool-making technology.
Homo erectus appeared about 2 million years ago, and ranged across Asia and Africa before hitting a possible evolutionary dead-end, about 70,000 years ago. Some researchers think Homo erectus evolved in East Africa, where many of the oldest fossils have been found, but the discovery in the 1990s of equally old Homo erectus fossils in the country of Georgia has led others to suggest an Asian origin. The study in Nature does not resolve the debate but adds new complexity. At 1.8 million years ago, Homo erectus in Dmanisi, Georgia was still using simple chopping tools while in West Turkana, Kenya, according to the study, the population had developed hand axes, picks and other innovative tools that anthropologists call "Acheulian." Read more.
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An exciting discovery
The discovery of Acheulian tools no younger than one million years, and possibly as old as 1.5 million years, in Tamil Nadu overturns the current thinking that hominins or early humans lived in India merely 0.6 million to 0.5 million years ago. The exciting finds are from a site at Attirampakkam, in the Kortallayar River basin, about 60 km northwest of Chennai. Previous age estimates indicated that hominins who moved out of Africa dispersed across Asia and Europe around the same time. This was inconsistent with the widely accepted current theories of early human migration from Africa to Asia. By dating the artifacts as at least one million years old, a paper published online in Science (“Early Pleistocene presence of Acheulian hominins in South India” by Shanti Pappu et al., March 25, 2011) comes close to placing them in sync with the migration of early humans from Africa to the rest of the world through Asia. Read more.
