Giant prehistoric 'handaxes' unearthed in the UK - The Jerusalem Post
The tools were likely too large to use easily and may have had significant cultural or symbolic importance.
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The tools were likely too large to use easily and may have had significant cultural or symbolic importance.
Archaeologists unearthed a collection of hand axes that are the largest and oldest known stone tools found in Britain.
A trove of around 800 stone tools, including what archaeologists described as “giant handaxes,” was found in a dig in England.
Archaeologists have discovered some of the largest stone tools from prehistoric times in Britain. Archaeologists from the UCL Institute of Archaeology have made a significant discovery in Kent, unearthing some of the largest stone artifacts from prehistoric times in Britain.
Two giant prehistoric hand axes, one of which is about a foot long, have been uncovered in deep Ice Age sediments in the south of England.