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What Is the Acheulean? [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
ABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia,
Moncel M, Cucart‐Mora C, Arzarello M, Ashton N, Baena J, Barsky D, de la Torre I, Galanidou N, García‐Medrano P, Hertler C, Herzlinger G, Ingicco T, Li H, Ma D, Mosquera M, Ollé A, Pappu S, Pei S, Tian C, Wang W, Bae C.   +20 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

The expansion of later Acheulean hominins into the Arabian Peninsula [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2018
Abstract The Acheulean is the longest lasting cultural–technological tradition in human evolutionary history. However, considerable gaps remain in understanding the chronology and geographical distribution of Acheulean hominins. We present the first chronometrically dated Acheulean site from the Arabian Peninsula, a vast and poorly ...
Eleanor M L Scerri, Ceri Shipton, Laine Clark-Balzan   +2 more
exaly   +10 more sources

The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2021
AbstractThe Arabian Peninsula is a critical geographic landmass situated between Africa and the rest of Eurasia. Climatic shifts across the Pleistocene periodically produced wetter conditions in Arabia, dramatically altering the spatial distribution of hominins both within and between continents.
Scerri EML, Frouin M, Breeze PS, Armitage SJ, Candy I, Groucutt HS, Drake N, Parton A, White TS, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD.   +10 more
europepmc   +15 more sources

The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition

World Archaeology, 2022
The Acheulean has long been considered a single, unified tradition. Decades of morphometric and technological evidence supports such an understanding by demonstrating that a single fundamental Bauplan was followed for more than 1.6 million years. What remains unknown is whether sites assigned to the Acheulean represent multiple socially-independent ...
Alastair Key (8098100)
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The mirror cracked: Symmetry and refinement in the Acheulean handaxe [PDF]

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2015
Abstract The Acheulean is a stone tool industry that originates in Africa over 1.7 mya. It is characterised by the bifacially shaped handaxe as part of a group of tools commonly referred to as LCTs — large cutting tools. Traditionally, the Lower Palaeolithic/Early Stone Age Acheulean is seen as continuing throughout much of the Old World until c.
McNabb, John, Cole, James
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The characteristics and chronology of the earliest Acheulean at Konso, Ethiopia [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
The Acheulean technological tradition, characterized by a large (>10 cm) flake-based component, represents a significant technological advance over the Oldowan. Although stone tool assemblages attributed to the Acheulean have been reported from as early as circa 1.6–1.75 Ma, the characteristics of these earliest occurrences and ...
Beyene, Yonas, Katoh, Shigehiro, Wolde Gabriel, Giday, Hart, William K., Uto, Kozo, Sudo, Masafumi (Dr.), Kondo, Megumi, Hyodo, Masayuki, Renne, Paul R., Suwa, Gen, Asfaw, Berhane   +10 more
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Regional extinction(s) but continental persistence in European Acheulean culture. [PDF]

Camb Prism Extinct
Traces of early hominin cultural dynamics are revealed through the spatial and temporal character of the archaeological record. In the European Lower Palaeolithic, biface occurrences provide insights into episodes of cultural loss, persistence and ...
Key A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Lithic Miniaturization Provides a Signature of an MIS4-3 Southern Dispersal of Homo sapiens. [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Fossil and artefactual evidence shows Homo sapiens in Eurasia well before 75 ka. However, genetic evidence suggests all extant non‐African populations derive almost all of their ancestry from a dispersal that only diverged in the last 60–50 ka. In northern Eurasia, the Upper Paleolithic with its laminar blade knapping provides an archeological
Shipton C.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The palaeoecological context of the Oldowan–Acheulean in southern Africa [PDF]

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018
The influence of climatic and environmental change on human evolution in the Pleistocene epoch is understood largely from extensive East African stable isotope records. These records show increasing proportions of C4 plants in the Early Pleistocene.
Ecker, M, Brink, J, Rossouw, L, Chazan, M, Horwitz, L, Lee-Thorp, J   +5 more
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Before, during, and after the early Acheulean at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia): A techno-economic comparative analysis

, 2018
The emergence of the Acheulean is a major topic, currently debated by archeologists researching all over East Africa. Despite the ongoing discussion and the increasing amount of available data, the mode(s) of the technological changes leading to this ...
Margherita Mussi, Rosalia Gallotti
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