A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle Paleolithic eras. Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that date ...

Archaeologists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB), led by archaeologist Ella Egberts, unearthed ancient stone tools in ... artifacts uncovered were hand axes estimated to be approximately ...

Previous research has shown that the oldest known use of stone tools is by Oldowan ... chooses to use two tools: a hammer, and an anvil. The hammer is held in the hand and brought down heavily ...