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Getting a Handle on Technological Complexity in the Acheulean: Hand-axes Make Excellent High-Energy Hafted Woodworking Tools

EXARC Journal
Reconstructing human behavioural complexity from stone tools is a primary concern for the Palaeolithic archaeologist. Two nested challenges exist in this reconstruction.
Christopher Scott, Karl Lee
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The origin of the Acheulean. Techno-functional study of the FLK W lithic record (Olduvai, Tanzania).

PLoS ONE, 2017
The Acheulean materials documented in FLK West dated c. 1.7 Ma. are the focus of the present work. An original techno-functional approach is applied here to analyze the origin of Acheulean tools.
Policarpo Sánchez-Yustos, Fernando Diez-Martín, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Javier Duque, Cristina Fraile, Isabel Díaz, Sara de Francisco, Enrique Baquedano, Audax Mabulla   +8 more
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La industria lítica del miembro estratigráfico medio de Ambrona (Soria, España) en el contexto del Paleolítico antiguo de la Península Ibérica

Zephyrus, 2009
RESUMEN: En el miembro estratigráfico medio de Ambrona se han reconocido industrias líticas no achelenses, con características tecnológicas propias del Paleolítico Medio.
Manuel SANTONJA, Alfredo PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ   +1 more
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Estructura interna y características tecnológicas de las industrias achelenses en la cuenca media occidental del Duero

Zephyrus, 2009
RESUMEN: Se realiza aquí una aproximación general sobre las industrias achelenses del occidente de la Meseta norte española, atendiendo a aspectos puramente tecnológicos, tanto por lo que se refiere a su estructura interna como a las características de ...
José Ignacio MARTÍN BENITO
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Stable Isotope Analysis of Pleistocene Proboscideans from Afar (Ethiopia) and the Dietary and Ecological Contexts of Palaeoloxodon

Quaternary
The timing, cause, and magnitude of mammalian extinctions during the African Middle Pleistocene remain largely unresolved. The demise of Elephas/Palaeoloxodon recki, a lineage that had a great geographic and temporal span, represents a particularly ...
Julie Luyt, Yonatan Sahle, Deano Stynder
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Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago. [PDF]

Nature, 2023
Barham L, Duller GAT, Candy I, Scott C, Cartwright CR, Peterson JR, Kabukcu C, Chapot MS, Melia F, Rots V, George N, Taipale N, Gethin P, Nkombwe P.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

With Impressions Chosen from Another Time: Core Technologies and Debitage Production at the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Notarchirico (670-695 ka; layers F to I2). [PDF]

J Paleolit Archaeol, 2023
Carpentieri M, Moncel MH, Eramo G, Arzarello M.   +3 more
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Steps to individuality in biology and culture. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023
Davison DR, Michod RE.
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On the earliest Acheulean in Britain: first dates and in-situ artefacts from the MIS 15 site of Fordwich (Kent, UK). [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2022
Key A, Lauer T, Skinner MM, Pope M, Bridgland DR, Noble L, Proffitt T.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The earliest elephant-bone tool from Europe: An unexpected raw material for precision knapping of Acheulean handaxes. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Parfitt SA, Bello SM.
europepmc   +1 more source