In archaeology, a cleaver is a name given to a type of biface stone tool of the Lower Palaeolithic. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Flint biface from Saint-Acheul, France. ... Ancient stone tools A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made of stone. ... The Lower Paleolithic or Palaeolithic refers to the earliest period of human existence, the first of the three Paleolithic (Stone Age) periods. ...

Cleavers are a little like handaxes, they are large and oblong or U-shaped tools meant to be held in the hand but unlike handaxes, they have a wide, straight cutting edge running at right angles to the axis of the tool. A hand axe is a bifacial Paleolithic core tool. ...

Acheulean cleavers resemble handaxes but with the pointed end truncated away. Flake cleavers have a cutting edge created by a tranchet flake being struck from the primary surface. Acheulean hand-axes from Kent. ... In archaeology, a lithic flake is a thin, sharp fragment of stone that results from the process of lithic reduction. ...

A large cleaver from Cuxton in Kent

Eldridge Cleaver Campaign Button File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Eldridge Cleaver Campaign Button File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ...

Source

Darvill, T (ed.) (2003). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192800051.