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Hand Axe

70,400 Generations Ago

By about 1.76 million BCE, early humans began to create hand axes. They would strike really large flakes, then continue to shape them around the edges. The hand axe pictured dates to circa 1.1 million BCE. It was found at Isampur, India.

 

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