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The Acquisition of Biface Knapping Skill in the Acheulean
2018The Acheulean stone tools of Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis are the longest enduring of all archaeological cultures, lasting for 1.5 million years. Three competing hypotheses have been proposed to explain this longevity: that Acheulean technology lies in a zone of latent, easy to invent solutions to problems that H.
Shipton, Ceri, Nielsen, Mark
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Nadaouiyeh – A Homo erectus in Acheulean context
L'Anthropologie, 2015The Middle East is apparently the most important passage for the dispersal of early hominins. Numerous archeological sites prove the existence of hominin populations in this region, but despite these rich cultural remains, hominin fossils are very rare. In 1996, a hominin left parietal was found in an Acheulean context.
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A case of Developed Oldowan in the Acheulean?
World Archaeology, 1988Abstract At Olduvai Gorge, contemporary tool assemblages from Middle and Upper Bed II have been assigned to two categories, Developed Oldowan B and Acheulean. Stiles has argued that both of these are variants of the Acheulean, whereas Mary Leakey sees them as two separate traditions.
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Taphonomy and Behaviour at the Acheulean Site of Kariandusi, Kenya
African Archaeological Review, 2011In this article, Louis Leakey’s previously unpublished field reports are used to describe the 1929–1931 excavation campaign at the Acheulean site of Kariandusi. Using the sample of artefacts from this campaign housed in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, attempt to understand the natural and behavioural factors contributing to site formation at
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New perspectives on Acheulean and Acheulean-like adaptations
Quaternary International, 2018Parth R. Chauhan, August G. Costa
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The Acheulean Assemblages of Asia: A Review
2018Acheulean assemblages—defined by the presence of handaxes and cleavers—are found across much of Asia. The best known are from the Levant and India and date from the Early Pleistocene. Although bifaces have been found in other parts of Asia, they are poorly dated but probably mostly Middle Pleistocene in age.
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2018
Konso in Ethiopia and Kokiselei in Kenya, both dated to ~1.7 million years ago (Ma), and FLK West, a recently reported site from Olduvai dated to 1.7 Ma, are the earliest Acheulean sites known in East Africa. Ongoing archaeological investigations at Gona, in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia, have also produced early Acheulean stone assemblages at ...
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Konso in Ethiopia and Kokiselei in Kenya, both dated to ~1.7 million years ago (Ma), and FLK West, a recently reported site from Olduvai dated to 1.7 Ma, are the earliest Acheulean sites known in East Africa. Ongoing archaeological investigations at Gona, in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia, have also produced early Acheulean stone assemblages at ...
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The Evolution of Social Transmission in the Acheulean
2019Abstract Human social transmission is unrivalled in its precision and complexity. High-fidelity social transmission ensures each generation does not have to reinvent the wheel, while the sharing of knowledge and skills enables the extraordinary feats of technology and artistry.
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