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 ...

A stone hand axe could always use a few accessories. An improbable new set of tools combines two state-of-the-art technologies that were created 1.8 million years apart: Prehistoric hand axes and 3-D ...

LOS ANGELES - Ancient humans fashioned hand axes, cleavers and picks much earlier than believed, but didn't take the stone tools along when they left Africa, new research suggests. A team from the ...

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 ...

These aren't your average prehistoric stone tools — they also have 500,000-year-old elephant residue on them. Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University found "hand axes" and "scrapers" among elephant ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a prehistoric ‘paradise’ dating back half a million years. Experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University have been excavating the site ...

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 ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...

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 ...