Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...

The object depicted was long thought to be a stone. A close-up of "The Melun Diptych", ca. 1455, Jean Fouquet. Courtesy Steven Kangas and authors. The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern ...

A 1.4-million-year-old handaxe made from hippopotamus bone expands the known technological repertoire of early human ancestors, according to a study. During the Pleistocene, Homo species developed ...

The two panels of "The Melun Diptych" (circa 1455) by Jean Fouquet: "Étienne Chevalier with Saint Stephen" (on the left), and "Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels," in an exhibition at the ...

The two panels of "The Melun Diptych" (c. 1455) by Jean Fouquet: "Étienne Chevalier with Saint Stephen" (left) and "Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels" (right) in an exhibition at the ...

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(via Minute Earth) The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for.

Early human ancestors used advanced techniques to craft a handaxe from the femur of a hippopotamus 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study. Early human ancestors used advanced techniques to ...