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This discovery significantly pushes back the known evidence of wooden architecture and the investment by humans in permanent structures suggesting relatively more settled occupation at certain locations.

A 15th-century French painting holds a prehistoric secret, hidden in plain sight. The Saint Stephen murder stone in this painting is actually a prehistoric Acheulean handaxe!

Challenging terrains might've sparked Homo erectus's innovative tool-making skills, setting the stage for a monumental shift in early human history.

A study on 1.4 million-year-old stone spheroids made by early hominins unveils our ancestors' symmetrical masterpiece-making skills.

Giant handaxes found in England have archaeologists puzzling about what kind of human species could have made them and even what was their true purpose.

Archaeologists from Israel have announced the discovery of hundreds of hand-axes, most likely used by prehistoric humans from five hundred thousand years ago at Jaljulia, north-east of Tel Aviv.

Hand axes found in England were made by archaic humans travelling the land over 560,000 years ago, revealing who were Britain’s earliest humans known to date.

The Azraq oasis in the Eastern Desert of Jordan has produced considerable stone artefacts attributed to the early Palaeolithic, yet relatively few data are available regarding the chronology and palaeoenvironmental contexts of the remains. In this study, we present stratigraphic, sedimentological, and micropalaeontological analyses of the Late Acheulean site SM1 located within the former Shishan Marsh, which we combine with geochronological and sedimentological data from 13 neighbouring geologic...

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