Paleolithic people made handaxes to show off their sexiness, argue some paleontologists

"Hey baby, check out my sweet biface!"

"It's highly symmetrical! Let's mate!"

— Conversation between two Homo Erectii in western Asia about 1.4 million years ago.

"Why was time invested in making [handaxes] when less extensively retouched artefacts, or even plain unretouched flakes, are suitable for tasks such as butchery, woodworking and the other activities for which handaxes were used?" — Read the rest