African proverb of the day: 'The axe forgets; the tree remembers' — a reminder that wounds outlive power

An insightful African proverb teaches us that every action has repercussions, even if the one who initiated it moves on. The ...

Proverb that warns against betrayal from within: 'When the axe handle was a branch of our own, we have come to the destruction of our home'

According to a well-known Turkish saying, true destruction originates from within, just as a tree falls at the strike of an ...
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The world’s oldest axe shows the cut and thrust of academia

The discovery of evidence of the world’s oldest axe is reported by my colleagues and I in a paper published in Australian Archaeology this week. As often happens, this announcement was the result of a ...