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  • So a medium quarterstaff does more damage (1d8) than a medium handaxe (1d6).

    4e PHB Readthrough – Chapter 7: Equipment « Geek Related 2008

  • But a huge quarterstaff does the same damage as a huge handaxe (1d10).

    4e PHB Readthrough – Chapter 7: Equipment « Geek Related 2008

  • Homo erectus butchered animals using simple stone tools like the handaxe.

    Inklings of Early Man 2010

  • As Alun Salt expands upon in a similar post on Egnor's misplaced analogy, however, archaeology's "design detection" is understood only because of a body of background experience, observation, experimentation and general hypothesis testing has already informed us that an Acheulian handaxe, for example, was made by early Homo and is not the result of lightning bolts.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • As Alun Salt expands upon in a similar post on Egnor's misplaced analogy, however, archaeology's "design detection" is understood only because of a body of background experience, observation, experimentation and general hypothesis testing has already informed us that an Acheulian handaxe, for example, was made by early Homo and is not the result of lightning bolts.

    Discovery Institute's Luskin and Egnor Contradict Each Other On Archaeology's Role In Intelligent Design Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • His handpalm lifted, his handshell cupped, his handsign pointed, his handheart mated, his handaxe risen, his handleaf fallen.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • We'd found it when I'd first got the Boy Scout handaxe I'd sent away for; it had cost twelve bucks, which was half a summer's worth of lemonade stands, lawn-mowing for Nick (under my guidance), and dog-walking.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • A small handaxe flew past Flint's head, embedding itself into the derro's skull.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • At the entrance of the passage, we spotted a small chert handaxe (pictured below) placed in between two cave formations.

    Search for the Maya Underworld - Day Three 2001

  • NMC in 1948 to preserve sections that contain the stone age handaxe industries.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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