Article: HAND AXES WERE MADE 1.6 MILLION YEARS AGO, TWICE AS LONG AGO AS PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED

Article: Hand axes were made 1.6 million years ...
The Hindustan Times;  January 4, 2009 ;     658 words ... ... southern Africa were making hand axes as early as 1.6 million years ago, which is nearly twice ... artifacts, which consisted of hand axes and two cleavers, were ... teardrop-shaped stone hand axes 1.6 million years ago, nearly twice as long ...

Article: Hand axes were made 1.6 million years ...
Asian News International;  January 5, 2009 ;     699 words ... ... southern Africa were making hand axes as early as 1.6 million years ago, which is nearly twice ... artifacts, which consisted of hand axes and two cleavers, were ... teardrop-shaped stone hand axes 1.6 million years ago, nearly twice as long ...

Article: Axes in pit may be 400,000 years old ; Archaeologists are ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  September 20, 2008 ;     672 words ... ... discovery of two rare hand axes in a gravel pit at ... wielding the deadly hand axes 400,000 years ago in the paleolithic ... gravels around 370,000 years ago. And that makes their ... discovered two similar hand axes in the Chard Junction ...

Article: Stone Age hand axes found in North Sea possibly ...
The Hindustan Times;  March 18, 2008 ;     628 words ... ... archaeologist has found an unprecedented collection of Stone Age hand axes, among material collected at the bottom of the North Sea ... periods of the Paleolithic era, which ended about 10,000 years ago, sea levels were lower and the North Sea was grassland hunting ...

Article: TOOLS LINK HUMANS TO SIBERIA 300,000 YEARS ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 28, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... far back as 300,000 years ago, 10 times earlier than ... 240,000 and 366,000 years ago, hundreds of thousands ... artifacts - quartz hammers, hand axes, anvils and cutting flakes ... Africa some 1.8 million years ago, Mochanov dated his find ...

Article: Out of Africa 1.8 Million Years Ago? `Java Man' ...
The Washington Post;  February 24, 1994 ;     648 words ... ... more than 1.8 million years ago. The findings are based ... a flattened teardrop. Hand axes are found all over Africa ... date to 1.95 million years ago. About half a million ... mystery why they lacked hand axes. Swisher and Curtis used ...

Article: The First Wanderers: Migrating 'out of Africa' 1.7 million ...
Newsweek;  May 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Asia and Europe 1 million years ago. But the Dmanisi skulls ... Kenya some 1.9 million years ago and was no genius: the ... stone tools, not the hand axes that supposedly gave the ... more than 1.7 million years ago, it's puzzling that ...