Handaxes: products of sexual selection?

Authors: Marek Kohn and Steven Mithen
Date: Sept. 1999
From: Antiquity(Vol. 73, Issue 281)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Document Type: Article
Length: 6,564 words
Abstract :

Why were handaxes made and why was their shape symmetrical and regular? These and many other questions are considered here, in a paper tackling hominid social behaviour and sexual selection. Key wrds: handaxes, sexual selection, mate choice, Lower Palaeolithic technology, knapping
Source Citation
Kohn, Marek, and Steven Mithen. "Handaxes: products of sexual selection?" Antiquity, vol. 73, no. 281, Sept. 1999, p. 518. link.gale.com/apps/doc/A57049967/AONE?u=gale&sid=bookmark-AONE. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
  

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