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A team of archaeologists and bushwalkers on an expedition in Wollemi National Park — just 100km from Sydney — have discovered an almost-complete hafted stone axe, hidden on a ledge at the back of a rock shelter. It is thought to be the first time such an item has been found in place anywhere in the Sydn...

Lenggong Impact site Date: 1.83 ± 0.61 million years old. Latitude: 5° 4'5.81"N, Longitude: 100°58'5.44"E (Rough)

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 United States and France made the findings after travelling to an archaeological site along the northwest shoreli...

Tourist who found Stone Age axe rewarded £20,000[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3071233/Tou...

Archaeologists have excavated a bronze axe at Cat Tien archaeological site in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, Vietnam. Scientists are studying whether the bronze axe, the first ever found in Cat Tien, was a production tool or an item used in ancient rituals. A number of bronze cas...

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Axe Wollemi stone axe (Preview)	Off Topic	0	2401	Oct 14 18:35 2006 by Blobrana
A team of archaeologists and bushwalkers on an expedition in Wollemi National Park — just 100km from Sydney — have discovered an almost-complete hafted stone axe, hidden on a ledge at the back of a rock shelter. It is thought to be the first time such an item has been found in place anywhere in the Sydn...
Axe Lenggong Impact site (Preview)	Meteorite News	9	10437	Jul 16 16:43 2012 by Blobrana
Lenggong Impact site Date: 1.83 ± 0.61 million years old. Latitude: 5° 4'5.81"N, Longitude: 100°58'5.44"E (Rough)
Axe Acheulian tools (Preview)	Off Topic	3	4571	Mar 30 19:07 2015 by Blobrana
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 United States and France made the findings after travelling to an archaeological site along the northwest shoreli...
Archaeology Axe Stone Age axe (Preview)	Off Topic	3	7302	Nov 21 22:46 2012 by Blobrana
Tourist who found Stone Age axe rewarded £20,000[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3071233/Tou...
Archaeology Axe Cat Tien bronze axe (Preview)	Off Topic	0	2962	Aug 15 16:22 2006 by Blobrana
Archaeologists have excavated a bronze axe at Cat Tien archaeological site in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, Vietnam. Scientists are studying whether the bronze axe, the first ever found in Cat Tien, was a production tool or an item used in ancient rituals. A number of bronze cas...