XIR161751 Three flint tools (stone) by Paleolithic; Musee des Antiquites Nationales, St. Germain-en-Laye, France; (add.info.: dating between 1500000 and 500000 BC; These tools are from the Acheulean period of prehistoric tool making; They are hand axes and would have been used for cutting - trees, animal carcasses or perhaps for scraping animal skins;); out of copyright.