Archaeologists find Ice Age axe so large it's difficult to pick up

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'We're not entirely sure why people were making these massive handaxes as they seem too big to be easily used,' archaeologist Letty Ingrey told Newsweek.

, but there might have been other archaic human species around also. Unfortunately, we don't have any fossil evidence from the site so can't be sure exactly who was making these tools."Archaeology South-East/ UCLat sites dating from 1.7 million to 300,000 years ago.

At this period in our history, our ancestors had developed an array of tools specialized for different hunting functions. "What is really distinctive about the largest of the handaxes we found was its size," Ingrey said."At 29.6 centimetres [nearly a foot long] it is the third-longest from Britain…We're not entirely sure why people were making these massive handaxes as they seem too big to be easily used."

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