A research team from the Universities of Dartmouth and Cambridge (USA) has discovered the earliest depiction of an Acheulean hand stone ax in Jean Fouquet’s painting The Melen Duo, created around 1455. The results of the research study were published in the journal Cambridge Journal of Archaeology (CAJ).
This work currently consists of two parts located in different cities: left wing in Berlin, right wing in Antwerp. Experts had long assumed that these were two parts of a diptych, but it was only in modern times that it was established that both boards used for painting were part of the same tree.
On the left is a red-robed praying man named Etienne Chevalier, a French treasurer and diplomat. Nearby stands St. Stephen, holding the New Testament and a stone on top of the book. In the picture, it is 95% identical to the shape of the Acheulean axe, which symbolizes death through the “stoning of the first Christian martyr, St. Stephen.”
Anthropologists before Establishedthat women also hunted in prehistoric times.