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Handaxe shape variation in a relative context

Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 2019
The nature, extent and causes of shape variation within and between Acheulean handaxe assemblages represent one of the most heavily theorised aspects of Lower Palaeolithic archaeology. To date, however, handaxe shape variation has only ever been studied within an artefact-based comparative context.
Alastair Key
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The handaxe reconsidered

Evolutionary Anthropology, 2018
AbstractThe Acheulean handaxe is one of the longest‐known and longest‐surviving artifacts of the Palaeolithic and, despite its experimentally tested functionality, is often regarded as puzzling. It is unnecessary to invoke a unique‐for‐mammals genetic mechanism to explain the handaxe phenomenon.
Thomas Wynn, John Gowlett
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The mirror cracked: Symmetry and refinement in the Acheulean handaxe [PDF]

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2015
Abstract The Acheulean is a stone tool industry that originates in Africa over 1.7 mya. It is characterised by the bifacially shaped handaxe as part of a group of tools commonly referred to as LCTs — large cutting tools. Traditionally, the Lower Palaeolithic/Early Stone Age Acheulean is seen as continuing throughout much of the Old World until c.
John Mcnabb, James Cole
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Palaeolithic handaxes in Scotland

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1998
The occurrence and typology of artefacts of handaxe type in Scotland are reviewed and it is concluded that, though some are genuine Lower Palaeolithic implements, none of these finds provides convincing evidence for Early Palaeolithic human presence in Scotland.
Alan Saville, Marion O'Neil
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The Bose (South China) Handaxes

2023
Abstract The Acheulean (1.76 Ma to 0.3–0.2 Ma) industry is characterized by large cutting tools, best represented by bifacially worked implements known as handaxes or bifaces. Their visual symmetry is often associated with hominin spatial cognition and theories of perception.
Wei Wang, Yaobin Fan, Christopher J. Bae
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The Handaxe Aesthetic

2019
Abstract From an evolutionary perspective, it is unlikely that the modern human aesthetic sensibility emerged fully formed 40,000 years ago. Rather than positing antecedents that left little or no archaeological trace, in this chapter, concepts derived from neuroaesthetics are applied this chapter applies concepts derived from ...
Thomas Wynn, Tony Berlant
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A handaxe from Stantonbury, and further notes on handaxes from the valleys of the Ouse and Ouzel

2023
Records of Buckinghamshire, 19 (1), 89 ...
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Handaxes: products of sexual selection?

Antiquity, 1999
Why were handaxes made and why was their shape symmetrical and regular? These and many other questions are considered here, in a paper tackling hominid social behaviour and sexual selection.
Marek Kohn, Steven Mithen
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First discovery of a bone handaxe in China

Quaternary International, 2017
Abstract Handaxes, the characteristic tool of the Acheulean industrial complex, are predominantly made of stone. Handaxes made of bone are much less common. Only a few have been reported, from sites in Africa, Europe and western Asia. In this study we report a bone handaxe from Chongqing, southwest China, which represents the first bone handaxe ever ...
Kefu Yu, Guangbiao Wei
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South African handaxes reloaded

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020
Abstract Late Acheulian handaxes in South Africa seem to increase in morphological variability when compared to earlier forms, which contradicts longstanding notions that these tools become more refined in symmetry and thinness through time. Recent investigations into the symmetry of Early and Late Acheulian handaxes in this region have found no ...
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