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The distribution of Acheulean culture and its possible routes in Turkey
, 2018 Turkey is a country located at the crossroads of possible migration routes between three continents and, as such, it plays a pivotal role in the distribution of Acheulean culture in Eurasia. Although Acheulean culture, which is considered to have reached
Taskiran, Harun, Harun Taşkıran
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, 2020 This article provides a synthesis of the Middle Pleistocene hominin record of West Iberia, which comprises sites displaying abundant concentrations of large flake Acheulean (LFA) assemblages, as well as isolated examples of Early Middle Palaeolithic (EMP)
Monteiro-Rodrigues, S. +25 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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The Macrotools in the Acheulean Complexes of the South-East Dagestan
Teoriya i praktika arkheologicheskikh issledovaniy, 2020 В статье рассматривается развитие форм макроорудий в ашельских индустриях Юго-Восточного Дагестана. Группа памятников, из которых происходит рассматриваемый материал, расположена на границе равнины и предгорий на территории Дарвагчайского геоархеологического района (Республика Дагестан).
Rybalko A., Kandyba A.
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Biface Knapping Skill in the East African Acheulean: Progressive Trends and Random Walks
, 2022 Over the 1.5-million-year duration of the Acheulean, there is considerable variation in biface finesse. It is not clear, however, if there is an improvement in biface knapping ability over time, or if variation between sites is largely unrelated to their
Shipton, Ceri
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Burn Selection: How Fire Injury Shaped Human Evolution
BioEssays, Volume 48, Issue 2, February 2026.Intentional fire use exposed humans and their ancestors to high‐temperature burn injury, a risk rare in other species, bringing major survival benefits and technologies but also repeated exposure to extreme heat. The Burn Selection Hypothesis reframes this cost of fire mastery as a unique selective pressure, which shaped our evolution.
Joshua Cuddihy +9 more
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European Large Flake Acheulean on Flint: The Transfesa Site in the Manzanares Valley (Madrid, Spain)
The Acheulean of the Iberian Peninsula and southern France share some of the technological characteristics that defne the African Acheulean, such as the confguration of handaxes, cleavers and picks, mainly using fakes as supports.
Pérez González, Alfredo José +3 more
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The origin of the Acheulean: the 1.7 million-year-old site of FLK West, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) [PDF]
, 2015 The appearance of the Acheulean is one of the hallmarks of human evolution. It represents the emergence of a complex behavior, expressed in the recurrent manufacture of large-sized tools, with standardized forms, implying more advance forethought and ...
Egeland, C. P. +13 more
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The cities of Petra and Udhruh were administrative and cultural centers in southern Jordan from Nabataean through Roman and Byzantine times into the early Islamic periods (first century BCE to eighth century CE). These communities built water harvesting systems to be able to survive in this arid environment.
Marcel R. Hoosbeek +4 more
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Examining the Presence of Symmetry within Acheulean Handaxes: A Case Study in the British Palaeolithic [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the relationship between the presence of symmetry and the Acheulean biface within a predominantly British Lower Palaeolithic context.
Cole, James; id_orcid
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