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Handaxes: products of sexual selection?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Marek Kohn  and
Steven Mithen
Marek Kohn
Affiliation:
14 York Villas, Brighton BN1 3TS, England marek.kohn@mcr1.poptel.org.uk
Steven Mithen
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AA, England s.j.mithen@reading.ac.uk
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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.

Keywords

handaxessexual selectionmate choiceLower Palaeolithic technologyknapping
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 281 , September 1999 , pp. 518 - 526
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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