A hand axe, today often known by the more neutral term biface, is a stone tool with two faces typical of the lower (Acheulean) and middle Palaeolithic (Mousterian), and is the longest-used tool of human history.
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“Your hand is the outrageous redeemer.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“If the axe is not sharp, it doesn’t matter how hard the wood is.”
—Chinese proverb.