When the Giants Left, the Handaxes Followed Linking the collapse of Levantine megafauna to the disappearance of a million-year-old stone tool tradition

New study finds that 200,000 years ago, as elephants and other megaherbivores vanished from the Levant, so did the handaxes and heavy stone tools used to process them. Prey size may have driven tool size all along. #Paleoanthropology #Acheulian #Paleolithic #Archaeology

To know where we’re going, it helps knowing where we’ve come from. Amazing discoveries of the first #MovingUpstream river-walking fellows on the #Betwalk in #India: #Neolithic and #Acheulian choppers and handaxes. 10K-500k yrs old. https://t.co/kBvXW2nwGF @veditum @outofedenwalk

To know where we’re going, it helps knowing where we’ve come from. Amazing discoveries of the first #MovingUpstream river-walking fellows on the #Betwalk in #India: #Neolithic and #Acheulian choppers and handaxes. 10K-500k yrs old. https://t.co/kBvXW2nwGF @veditum @outofedenwalk