一前言手斧是旧石器时代早期具有特色、且第一种具有规则几何形状的打制石器。最早的手斧发现于非洲的奥杜威峡谷,距今约150万年,现在发现的手斧主要分布在非洲、西欧、西亚、南亚的大部分地区,一般将这种手斧文化称作“阿舍利文化”。1944年Movius提出的两个文化圈的理论将旧大陆分为两个大的区域:一个是砍斫器文化圈 A foreword Hand ax is unique in the early Paleolithic, and the first stone with a regular geometric shape. The earliest hand ax was found in the Odawi Gorge in Africa, about 1.5 million years ago. Hand axes now found in most parts of Africa, Western Europe, West Asia and South Asia are generally referred to as “Axeli culture ”. The theory of two cultural circles proposed by Movius in 1944 divides the Old World into two major areas: one is the cultural circle