hand-ax

Jest as I raised my hand-ax I happened to cast my eyes down the hill.

Bald-Face 2010

Jest as I raised my hand-ax I happened to cast my eyes down the hill.

Bald-Face 2010

The adventurer, armed only with a hand-ax, trails the beast and traps it in a small valley like a hippodrome, perhaps five miles around, and runs the beast for two months, not allowing it to eat, drink or sleep, until it "fell to whimpering and crying like a baby."

“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.” 2008

Most believe that H. erectus, armed with an advanced tool kit, known as the Acheulean or hand-ax tradition, became the first human species capable of braving an array of challenging environments outside Africa.

Georgian Homo Erectus Crania 2000

Some discussion of raw material selection and tool use was provided, with a link to the hand-ax History Mystery.

Multimedia: Adventures in Africa 1999

This time, she made a real hand-ax, taking special care to fashion the tip, making it thin and straight-edged and sharp.

Night World No. 2 L.J. SMITH 1997

The caption reads: A near-fatal step in 1929 led Dr. Leakey to the first known living site of hand-ax man.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

The caption reads: A near-fatal step in 1929 led Dr. Leakey to the first known living site of hand-ax man.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

When nothing remained but the hand-ax, he charged again and again, striking when he could.

Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

Returning to the woods, he used the hand-ax to gnaw a fairly straight shaft off a larrik bush, and secured one of the points to this with a strip cut from the fibrous interior of the plant.

Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964