Three years ago, a then-6-year-old boy named Ben discovered a strange rock on a beach in Sussex, England. He took it home, but then lost track of it. Now, the object has been identified for what it ...

During a recent visit to a local museum in southern England, a 9-year-old boy felt a pang of recognition. The small axes on display in the Worthing Museum’s Stone Age exhibition resembled something in ...

LOS ANGELES - Ancient humans fashioned hand axes, cleavers and picks much earlier than believed, but didn't take the stone tools along when they left Africa, new research suggests. A team from the ...

Archaeologists in Kent, England have unearthed a collection of prehistoric hand axes that are among the largest and oldest known stone tools found in Britain. The ancient artifacts, two of which ...

What may be the world's largest prehistoric hand ax, measuring over 20 inches long, was found in Saudi Arabia. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Hand axes are fairly common finds at sites dating between 2 million and 1 million years old. These sturdy tools have two sides (also called faces) and a sharp edge at one end. But hand axes are ...

Researchers say they have identified the first example of a bone, not stone, hand ax crafted by ancient humans in East Asia. Makers of the curved, pear-shaped implement probably used it to dig up ...

ASHLAND -- With a crazy quilt of stitch marks and a protruding mound of flesh that used to be an index finger, Jason Freeman's right hand looks like a Frankenstein operation that went awry. But the ...