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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“ah! the uplifted sword
Of his hand again my bosom! and oh, the broad
Blade of his glance that asks me to applaud
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“If the axe is not sharp, it doesn’t matter how hard the wood is.”
—Chinese proverb.