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Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene (2018)
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White, M., & Foulds, F. (2018). Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene. Antiquity, 92(362), 304-319. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.35

Bilateral symmetry in handaxes has significant implications for hominin cognitive and socio-behavioural evolution. Here the authors show that high levels of symmetry occur in the British Late Middle Pleistocene Acheulean, which they consider to be a... Read More about Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene.