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Boxgrove Handaxes

Precision Artifact

Description

Boxgrove Handaxes is a precision artifact in United Kingdom, Europe. It is held at Natural History Museum, London. University College London Institute of Archaeology gives its chronology as “c. 500,000 years ago.” University College London Institute of Archaeology also records: “Butchery tools.”

Finely made flint handaxes from one of the oldest human sites in Britain.

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Photo

Photo: Parfitt, Simon A.; Bello, Silvia M., CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - (2026-01-23). "The earliest elephant-bone tool from Europe: An unexpected raw material for precision knapping of Acheulean handaxes". Science Advances. 12 (4). doi:10.1126/sciadv.ady1390. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 12822657. PMID 41564184 .

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Deep Prehistory — Boxgrove Handaxes in context.

Deep Prehistory, 2,000,000 BCE to 10,000 BCEDates supported by mainstream archaeology. Natural formations remain undated.Timeline22Schoningen Spears1,500,000 BCE1,000,000 BCE500,000 BCE100,000 BCE50,000 BCE20,000 BCE
Held atNatural History Museum, LondonConfidence: estimated

Claims

Compare the published evidence and its interpretations. “Consensus” records the mainstream account; “Alternative” identifies a competing interpretation, not an equally established conclusion. Estimates and unresolved questions remain qualified in the claim text.

FieldConsensusAlternative
Date

500000 BCE - 480000 BCE

c. 500,000 years ago

University College London Institute of Archaeology
No claims found.
Purpose

Butchery tools

University College London Institute of Archaeology
No claims found.
MethodNo claims found.No claims found.
Sources: University College London Institute of Archaeology

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Approximate - counted from January 1, 490,000 BCE (UTC). Based on the midpoint of 500,000 BCE - 480,000 BCE; the underlying date is uncertain.

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