"The flint axe was the Swiss Army knife of its time ... it's beautifully balanced and a pleasure to hold in your hand. It's really hard to get your mind around the fact that the person who ...

CHENNAI: Two school students have discovered neolithic hand axes around their rural homes in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai in the past 10 days, with archaeologists estimating the tools to be 4,500 ...

VILLUPURAM: Postgraduate students from the History Department of Arignar Anna Government Arts College, Villupuram, have ...

We discovered that during Neolithic times the Lake District was a major source of stone axes, examples of which ... It fits the hand perfectly. At the bottom of the stone, there is a small rock ...

This Neolithic stone axe was found within a prehistoric pit at Clifton (Worcestershire) during an archaeological project in 2006. The axe itself is beautifully made of polished stone and is very ...

This small stone axehead is made from volcanic tuff and dates from the neolithic period ... We can only theorise about how the axe came to be in this unusual location. It may be that the island ...