Ancient Humans Made Millions of These – We Don’t Know Why

> The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for

I like the Sci fi "evolution" (Stephen Baxter, 2002) theory that making good hand axes was a bowerbird like breeding show ritual, with no intent to use: the value is proving you CAN.

He probably had good inputs from his sources to fictionalise this.

Can anyone recommend a good fast YouTube video summarising approach? 2x speed play only goes so far.

If it’s ancient and you can’t figure out what they are for, there’s a high probability that’s either used for spiritual rituals (aka just getting high on some drugs), or something has to do with humans’ reproduction, sexual or maternal labour/delivery.

I don't get it, isn't 'handaxe' pretty suggestive of its primary use?

Sure a lot of them don't have noticeable wear but frequent sharpening seems like a plausible enough explanation, I don't see why more is needed.

How comes they’re found around the world.

This could suggest that it is something people were using before they left Africa.

Either that or they all found a common use for the same sort of thing.

You throw it at the prayer/topic board...