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Acheulean industry, first standardized tradition of toolmaking of Homo erectus and early H. sapiens. Named for the type site, Saint-Acheul, in northern France, Acheulean tools were made of stone with good fracture characteristics, such as chalcedony, jasper, and flint; in regions lacking these, quartzite might be used.
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In 1872, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet described the characteristic hand-axe tools as belonging to L'Epoque de St Acheul. The industry was renamed as the Acheulean in 1925. [citation needed]
The Acheulean Industry was named after stone artefacts recovered in the 1850s from ancient river terraces in a quarry at Saint-Acheul (Amiens), in France. The Oldowan and Acheulean industries define the Lower Palaeolithic period.
5 Ιουλ 2016 · The Acheulean was first defined by Gabriel de Mortillet [13, p. 436], who considered it to be the earliest of the Stone Age periods.
France and southern England was to bring about a para-digmatic shift, and such occurred in 1859, when Prestwich and Evans visited Abbeville and Saint Acheul, and witnessed personally the unearthing of stone tools in indisputably ‘pre-Diluvium’ strata (see review by Gamble & Kruszynski [1]). After 1859, it was an inescapable fact that humans had
21 Απρ 2023 · Acheulean History: Who Used Acheulean Tools? These tools were usually used by Homeo erectus in the hunting and preparation of game, though many believe they could also be used for battle and...
The earliest known Acheulean artifacts from Africa have been dated to 1.6 million years ago. The oldest Acheulean sites in India are only slightly younger than those in Africa. In Europe, the earliest Acheulean tools appear just after 800,000 years ago, as H. erectus moved north out of Africa.
