Flint hand axe


Photograph of a human-made hand axe, which was discovered in 1859, and is thought to be about 400,000 years old.


Size: 4096px × 2742px
Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1812-1896, 19th, acheul, anthropological, anthropology, archaeological, archaeology, artefact, artifact, axe, background, black, century, chert, clive, discovery, flint, gamble, grey, hand, hand-axe, handaxe, historic, historical, hominini, homo, human, joseph, man, nineteenth, prestwich, rock, sapiens, sedimentary, shot, side, sir, st, studio, studioshot, tool, victorian, view