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Handaxes as a Measure of the Mental Capabilities of Early Hominids
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2000Handaxes are often used to discuss the evolution of mental capabilities in early hominids. There are several reasons handaxes are used for this purpose, but principal among these is the notion that handaxe shape is an arbitrary imposition of form, on varied raw material, that reflects shared mental templates.
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Some quantitative experiments in handaxe manufacture
World Archaeology, 1971Abstract This paper describes the methods and materials used by the author to reproduce flint handaxes of late Acheulian ‐ Mousterian of Acheulian Tradition type, using flaking tools and techniques available to palaeolithic man. Stages in the manufacture of handaxes are defined first subjectively then quantitatively by counting and weighing waste ...
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An Acheulean Handaxe from the Thames at Mortlake
2021Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 2.29, 144 ...
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A handaxe assemblage from western Nepal
2021Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 41/42 (1991): Quartär.
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Graphic Visualization of Handaxes and Other Artifacts
Near Eastern Archaeology, 1999Scott Brande and Idit Saragusti In archaeological studies, measurements are commonly used to objectively describe various types of artifacts. These studies very often involve large sample sizes, thus suggesting that methods for the compact summary of specimen form and variation may be helpful in comparisons of interand Gesher Benot Ya'aqov intra ...
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A Lower Palaeolithic handaxe from Coulsdon
2017Surrey Archaeological Collections, 99, 195 ...
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