Over time, superior LSA/UP technologies swept across Africa and Eurasia, eventually making their way as far as Australia and the Americas. Acheulean: An Earlier Stone Age/Lower Paleolithic tool ...

Among the more than 850 artifacts were Lower or Upper Paleolithic hand axes and Levallois ... struck from the core of stone in a sophisticated tool-making technique mostly used in prehistoric ...

It was mesmerizing to discover that Stone Age men had trod the same ground thousands of years before me. Just how many thousands, I have no idea but would truly appreciate it if someone could give ...

The Wenquan Paleolithic site in Ruzhou, Central China's Henan Province, has yielded a collection of Acheulean tools, including hand axes, thin-edged axes, and large stone knives. This marks the ...

And more than two million years ago, hominins were using crude stone tools ... cut stones into hand axes, also called bifaces. This invention represented a major advance, making it possible ...