As a handaxe would have been more useful than a chopper in dismembering an elephant carcass it is considered strong evidence of the Clactonian being a separate industry.
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It is at this time in the Archaeological record that the large, Acheulean handaxe disappears and is replaced by the core axe and chopping tools characteristic of Sangoan technologies.
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Theories to explain the existence of the Movius Line include the idea that perhaps the ancestors of the toolmakers who settled in eastern Asia left Africa before the handaxe was developed.
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With other items from Conyers'collection, the handaxe passed to the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, whose own collection was one of the founding collections of the British Museum.
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Flint of sufficient quality was available in the area and it is likely that the people who carved up the elephant did not possess the knowledge to make the more advanced bifacial handaxe.
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I also don't think the handaxe looks remarkable or distinctive enough to have required a superstitious explanation .-- talk ) 07 : 15, 27 June 2013 ( UTC)
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Recently, it has been suggested that the Acheulean tool users adopted the handaxe as a social artifact, meaning that it embodied something beyond its function of a butchery or wood cutting tool.
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A "'ficron "'handaxe is the name given to a type of prehistoric stone tool biface with long, curved sides and a pointed, well-made tip.
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The handaxe is associated with the Acheulean industry, 1.6 million to 0.2 million years ago, and was mostly replaced by better tools by 40, 000 years ago.
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John Bagford then somewhat later argued for an origin of the assemblage in the Roman presence under the Emperor Claudius; this was in a letter of 1715, in which Bagford accepted the human origin of the handaxe.
