{"id":167040,"date":"2023-07-06T22:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T03:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/mysterious-giant-300000-year-old-hand-axes-were-found-at-an-ice-age-site-in-england-scientists-cant-work-out-why-they-are-so-big"},"modified":"2023-07-06T22:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T03:23:18","slug":"mysterious-giant-300000-year-old-hand-axes-were-found-at-an-ice-age-site-in-england-scientists-cant-work-out-why-they-are-so-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/mysterious-giant-300000-year-old-hand-axes-were-found-at-an-ice-age-site-in-england-scientists-cant-work-out-why-they-are-so-big","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious giant 300,000-year-old hand axes were found at an Ice Age site in England. Scientists can\u2019t work out why they are so big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-giant-300000-year-old-hand-axes-were-found-at-an-ice-age-site-in-england-scientists-cant-work-out-why-they-are-so-big.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe describe these tools as \u2018giants\u2019 when they are over 22cm long and we have two in this size range,\u201d senior archaeologist Letty Ingrey of the UCL Institute of Archeology said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The largest of the two hand axes, which is about 12 inches long, is \u201cone of the longest ever found in Britain,\u201d said Ingrey, who participated in the excavation.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists think these types of tools were typically used to butcher or skin animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe describe these tools as \u2018giants\u2019 when they are over 22cm long and we have two in this size range,\u201d senior archaeologist Letty Ingrey of the UCL Institute of Archeology said in a press release. The largest of the two hand axes, which is about 12 inches long, is \u201cone of the longest ever found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}