ARCHAEOLOGY

PORTRAIT OF AN ANCIENT AX

Cutting tools known as Acheulean hand axes, made by and other early human species from about 1.76 million to 130,000 years ago, represent humanity’s most by French artist Jean Fouquet. DeSilva agreed, and they collaborated with University of Cambridge archaeologists Alastair Key and James Clark to test out the idea.

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