Acheulean
Acheulean Acheulean hand-axes from Kent. The types shown ... clockwise from top) cordate, ficron and ovate. Acheulean (also spelt Acheulian, pronounced // or //) is the ... than one million years ago, it was Acheulean tool users who left Africa to first ... to suggest a very ancient date for Acheulean hand-axes. In 1797 he sent ...
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Talk:Acheulean
Talk:Acheulean Nature disputes the accuracy of this article ... early Homo sapiens) did not use the Acheulean!! The retooled article now stresses the connection ... what this following statement means: 'However, the Acheulean industry continued to be used by some ... and often bewildered by their environment. Adversely, Acheulean tools gave their masters the ability to ... Early hominins were probably hunting and scavenging. Acheulean hominins also likely scavenged and hunted. ...
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Acheulian/temp
Acheulian/temp Acheulean (also spelt Acheulian) is the name of ... in 1872. It was renamed as the Acheulean in 1925 and its distinctive oval and ... to suggest a very ancient date for Acheulean handaxes. In 1797 he sent two examples ... the tools was finally accepted. Dating the Acheulean Providing calendrical dates and therefore ordered sequences ... able to broadly place the use of Acheulean techniques within the time from around ...
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Clactonian
... industry may have co-existed with the Acheulean industry which used identical basic techniques but ... argued that the difference between Clactonian and Acheulean may be false distinction however. The Clactonian ... fact be the same thing as the Acheulean and only distinguished as being different due to its tools being Acheulean ones made by individuals who had no ... in favour of it being an anomalous Acheulean industry. The precise provenance of the ...
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Synoptic table of the principal old world prehistoric cultures
... 000 BCE glacial ended (135,000BCE) Upper Acheulean Upper Acheulean Sangoen AcheuleanSoanian Fen Culture 200 000 BCE ... 240,000BCE) glacial began (285,000BCE) Tayacian Acheulean Acheulean Acheulean 300 000 BCE middle AcheuleanClactonian middle ...
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Hand axe
Hand axe Acheulean handaxes from Kent. The types shown are ... of axe is typical of the lower (Acheulean) and the middle Palaeolithic (Mousterian) and is ... M. B. Roberts, Flaking technology at the Acheulean site of Boxgrove, West Sussex, England. Rev ...
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Homo erectus
... and then later used tools of the Acheulean style. The surviving tools from both periods ... about 2.4 million years ago. The Acheulean era began about 1.2 million years ... years ago. The primary innovation associated with Acheulean handaxes is that the stone was chipped ...
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Roe Line
... and seperates two different techniques used by Acheulean toolmakers from the Lower Palaeolithic. North and east of the Roe Line, Acheulean hand-axes were made directly from large ...
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Kapthurin
... humans who occupied the area and left Acheulean stone tools and animal bones behind. Argon ... and McBrearty, S, 2002, Tephrostatigraphy and the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in the ...
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Duinefontein
... Town in South Africa They have produced Acheulean stone tools and animal bones dating from ... et al, 2003, Excavation of buried late Acheulean (mid-Quaternary) land surfaces at Duinefontein 2 ...
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