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Handaxe 300,000 BCE [Object of the Day #13]
By: Amy Ellsworth
Neandertal flintknappers throughout Europe, the Near East, and Africa would prepare a core in such a way that they could produce a single flake (removed from this piece) of a specified size and shape. Bifaces are the characteristic tool of the Lower Paleolithic. Early hominids of Eurasia and Africa would shape these pieces by removing […]