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The handaxe reloaded: A morphometric reassessment of Acheulian and Middle Paleolithic handaxes
Journal of Human Evolution, 2011This paper examines shape and size variability in Mousterian of Acheulian Tradition (MTA) handaxes and compares the observed patterns to those in the Lower Paleolithic Acheulian, both to better understand variability in MTA handaxes and to test whether or not this variability, particularly as it relates to resharpening and reduction, is structured ...
Radu, Iovita, Shannon P, McPherron
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Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 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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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 Bose (South China) Handaxes
2023Abstract 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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Palaeolithic handaxes in Scotland
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1998The 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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South African handaxes reloaded
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020Abstract 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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Handaxes: products of sexual selection?
Antiquity, 1999Why 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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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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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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Handaxes, Concepts, and Teaching
Mind, Brain, and Education, 2012ABSTRACTThis paper argues that teaching of concepts is deeply rooted in human phylogeny. The basis of this argument is a consideration of the type of knowledge used to make handaxes, a tool that is found in the archaeological record beginning around 1.8 million years ago. A distinction is made between the human capacity for teaching concepts, which has
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Middle Pleistocene handaxes from the Korean Peninsula
Journal of Human Evolution, 2006We present four biface assemblages from an archaeologically poorly known region of the Old World: Middle Pleistocene Korea. The handaxes are derived from a series of Middle Pleistocene localities in the Imjin/Hantan River Basins (IHRB) in Korea. The best known of these localities is Chongokni, although a number of equally important sites in the IHRB ...
Christopher J, Norton +3 more
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A handaxe of Libyan Desert glass
Antiquity, 1982The handaxe of Libyan Desert glass (PL. XIIIb & FIG. I) was found on 23 June 1979, in the Sand Sea of S.W. Egypt, at latitude 25°o8' N, longitude 25° 35·5' E, near the southern boundary of the known distribution area of the glass. Lying just north of the Gilf Kebir, this part of the Sand Sea is characterized by an extensive field of linear dunes ...
Derek A. Roe +3 more
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