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Anthropologie, 2019
Abstract This chapter will consider the origins, evolution and adaptive significance of the Acheulean Industrial Complex, based upon experimental replicative and functional studies. It is argued here that the Acheulean emerged as a response to large-mammal carcass acquisition and butchery, where larger, heavier and more ergonomic butchery tools with ...
Nicholas Tóth, Kathy Schick
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Abstract This chapter will consider the origins, evolution and adaptive significance of the Acheulean Industrial Complex, based upon experimental replicative and functional studies. It is argued here that the Acheulean emerged as a response to large-mammal carcass acquisition and butchery, where larger, heavier and more ergonomic butchery tools with ...
Nicholas Tóth, Kathy Schick
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On questions surrounding the Acheulean ‘tradition’
World Archaeology, 2008Abstract The Acheulean, sometimes known as ‘the great handaxe tradition’, is the longest-lasting entity in the human cultural record. The oldest sites are in Africa at around 1.6 million years ago and the most recent approach the last 100,000 years. The geographical extent is also enormous, ranging across Africa, the Middle East, most of Europe and ...
Stephen J Lycett
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Multi-scale Acheulean landscape survey in the Arabian Desert
Quaternary International, 2015 The interpretation of Acheulean landscape use through the analysis of artefact distributions over a range of environmental settings is vital for understanding early hominin behaviour.
Richard P Jennings +2 more
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The origins of the Acheulean: past and present perspectives on a major transition in human evolution [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016 The emergence of the Acheulean from the earlier Oldowan constitutes a major transition in human evolution, the theme of this special issue. This paper discusses the evidence for the origins of the Acheulean, a cornerstone in the history of human ...
Ignacio De La Torre
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The Acheulean Origins of Normativity
2021‘Normativity’ refers to the human conformity to the behavioral modes of a society, which underpins diverse aspects of our behavior, including symbolism, cooperation, and morality. It has its developmental basis in overimitation, the uniquely human bias towards replicating the intentional actions of a demonstrator, regardless of their causal relevance ...
Shipton, Ceri +2 more
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2022
Although the data are incomplete, the Acheulean seems to occupy the longest share of the prehistoric period of West Africa. Whereas some sites suggest the arrival of the first hominids beginning in the Early Pleistocene, the majority of the Acheulean sites show evidence of activity throughout almost the entirety of the Mid-Pleistocene.
Djibril Thiam, Isis Mesfin
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Although the data are incomplete, the Acheulean seems to occupy the longest share of the prehistoric period of West Africa. Whereas some sites suggest the arrival of the first hominids beginning in the Early Pleistocene, the majority of the Acheulean sites show evidence of activity throughout almost the entirety of the Mid-Pleistocene.
Djibril Thiam, Isis Mesfin
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Culture and industry of the Acheulean Age
Вестник Российской академии наук, 2023The readers of Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences are presented with reflections on volumes III and IV of the fundamental multivolume summarizing work on the Paleolithic by the outstanding archaeologist and historian Academician A.P. Derevyanko.
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Current Anthropology, 2005
There seems to be some consensus in the comments on McNabb et al.’s (CA 45:653–77) paper that Acheulean tools reveal a trend beginning with an imprecise kind of symmetry and leading to more defined regularities. Recent findings on how the brain functions can help to clarify why this sequence evolved.
Derek Hodgson, John Mc Nabb
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There seems to be some consensus in the comments on McNabb et al.’s (CA 45:653–77) paper that Acheulean tools reveal a trend beginning with an imprecise kind of symmetry and leading to more defined regularities. Recent findings on how the brain functions can help to clarify why this sequence evolved.
Derek Hodgson, John Mc Nabb
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The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula
Nature, 1992Konso-Gardula is a palaeoanthropological area discovered by the 1991 Palaeoanthropological Inventory of Ethiopia in the southern Main Ethiopian Rift. The Konso-Gardula sediments span the period about 1.3-1.9 million years ago. They contain rich Acheulean archaeological occurrences. Vertebrate fossils include early Homo.
B, Asfaw +6 more
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Imitation and Shared Intentionality in the Acheulean
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2010Imitation and shared intentionality are traits essential to the socio-cultural adaptation of Homo sapiens. Non-human apes display some capacity for imitation and shared intentionality, but are deficient in comparison to Homo sapiens. The Acheulean archaeological record provides evidence that imitation and shared intentionality were part of the ...
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