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Rediscovery and the cognitive aspects of toolmaking: Lessons from the handaxe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2003
Abstract
Long before signs of staged toolmaking appeared, Homo erectus made symmetrical tools. The handaxe is a flattened tear-drop shape, but often with edges sharpened all around. Before we assign their obsession with symmetry to an aesthetic judgment, we must consider whether it is possible that the symmetry is simply very pragmatic for one particular use in the many suggested.
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