New study finds that 200,000 years ago, as elephants and other megaherbivores vanished from the Levant, so did the handaxes and heavy stone tools used to process them. Prey size may have driven tool size all along. #Paleoanthropology #Acheulian #Paleolithic #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-giants-left-the-handaxes
When the Giants Left, the Handaxes Followed

Linking the collapse of Levantine megafauna to the disappearance of a million-year-old stone tool tradition

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