A ficron handaxe is a name given to a type of prehistoric stone tool biface with long, curved sides and a pointed, well-made tip. They are found in Middle Palaeolithic and Acheulean contexts. The name was created by the famous French archaeologist François Bordes. A hand axe is a bifacial Paleolithic core tool. ... Ancient stone tools A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made of stone. ... Flint biface from Saint-Acheul, France. ... In Europe and Africa the Middle Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is the period of the middle Paleolithic (early Stone Age) that lasted between around 120,000 and 40,000 years ago. ... Acheulean hand-axes from Kent. ...

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