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Meaning of "acheulean"
Acheulean refers to a Lower Paleolithic stone tool industry
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- Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.
- A lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.
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Acheulean tools were the dominant technology for the vast majority of human history.
This level is characterized by Acheulean types of tools.
Acheulean tools are complex and appear to have required advanced planning to create.
This is not to denigrate the Acheulean hand ax.
The Acheulean industry was successful and very widespread.
The site yielded hand axes of the Acheulean type.
It is found in some Acheulean assemblages as well as in Mesolithic flaked stone industries.
The structure is also the location of exceptional accumulations of Acheulean archaeological artifacts.
Many stone tools of the Acheulean culture have been discovered there.
Acheulean Paleolithic implements and remains of fire were also found out in the cave.
A possible reason why the Acheulean tool industry is not associated with.
Late Acheulean tools are found associated with hominin remains as yet unclassified.
The handaxe was not the only target of the Acheulean manufacturing process.
Some Acheulean tools were sharpened instead by the removal of a tranchet flake.
Developed Oldowan was assigned to habilis and Acheulean to erectus.
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Lithic industry corresponds to Acheulean with no presence of Levallois technique.
The Acheulean culture is thought to have started with Homo erectus.
There is evidence pointing to Acheulean origins and Roman occupation.
The caves contained hominin remains as well as Mousterian and Acheulean artifacts.
This is one level superior to the Acheulean complex of the Lower Paleolithic.
It was discovered and materials collected by Jacques Cauvin who suggested they were Acheulean.
Obsidian was used as early as the Acheulean Age for weapons.
The oldest Acheulean sites in India are only slightly younger than those in Africa.
Thus the Asian migratory descendants of Homo ergaster made no use of any Acheulean technology.
An abundant Middle Acheulean industry was also found.
Acheulean handaxe found by Boucher de Perthes.
Conversely the site of Saffaqah features the youngest Acheulean tools yet found in southwest Asia.
Acheulean handaxes from Kent.
His first two were Chellean and Acheulean.
Late Acheulean artefacts associated with Homo sapiens have been found in South African cave sites.
The Garba III assemblage has been considered transitional between the Acheulean and the MSA.
Acheulean tools are created by removing flakes from the surface to ‘ reveal ' a tool.
The artefacts found there, date from the end of acheulean tradition from to y . a.
Acheulean stone tools are the products of Homo erectus, a closer ancestor to modern humans.
In these newly colonised areas, no Acheulean assemblages have been found.
This distinctive tranchet flake can be identified amongst flint-knapping debris at Acheulean sites.
Fauresmith is now considered to be a facies of Acheulean, while Sangoan is a facies of Lupemban.
The palaeoecological context of the Oldowan - Acheulean.
Acheulean tools in their primary position at Porto Maior, Spain.
The lower part of the sequence contains simpler, older Acheulean technology.
In the Old World, Acheulean tools are routinely attributed to Homo erectus.
Despite their rough appearance, nucleiform bifaces were present in both the Acheulean and the Mousterian.
During this time, the Acheulean industry of Kalambo Falls was superseded by the Sangoan culture.
Oh, obsidian was used as early as the Acheulean Age for weapons.
Drawing of Acheulean handaxe from Spain from front, back, side, and top profile.
Ergaster refined the inherited Oldowan technology, then developed the first Acheulean bifacial axes.
An Acheulean cleaver in andesite from Canteen Kopje, also heavily smoothed . © Vincent Mourre, Inrap.
Transitional tool forms between the two are called Mousterian of Acheulean Tradition, or MTA types.
At 1.7 mya ., the first Acheulean tools appear even as Oldowan assemblages continue to be produced.
The palaeoecological context of the Oldowan - Acheulean in southern Africa ".
