On the earliest Acheulean in Britain: first dates and in-situ artefacts from the MIS 15 site of Fordwich (Kent, UK) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Northern Europe experienced cycles of hominin habitation and absence during the Middle Pleistocene. Fluvial gravel terrace sites in the east of Britain and north of France provide a majority of the data contributing to this understanding, mostly through ...
Alastair Key +6 more
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When is a handaxe a planned-axe? exploring morphological variability in the Acheulean. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe handaxe is an iconic stone tool form used to define and symbolise both the Acheulean and the wider Palaeolithic. There has long been debate around the extent of its morphological variability between sites, and the role that extrinsic factors ...
James Clark +4 more
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Taphonomic and technological analyses of Lower Palaeolithic bone tools from Clacton-on-Sea, UK [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The exceptional survival of Middle Pleistocene wooden spears at Schöningen (Germany) and Clacton-on-Sea (UK) provides tantalizing evidence for the widespread use of organic raw materials by early humans.
Simon A. Parfitt +2 more
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Automatic analysis of the continuous edges of stone tools reveals fundamental handaxe variability [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe edges of stone tools have significant technological and functional implications. The nature of these edges–their sharpness, whether they are concave or convex, and their asymmetry–reflect how they were made and how they could be used.
Antoine Muller +2 more
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Reply to Barkai: Implications of the Konso bone handaxe [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 We welcome Ran Barkai’s thoughts (1) on the symbolic significance of the Konso bone handaxe that we recently reported (2). First, we agree that African Homo erectus at 1.4 Mya may have been considerably sophisticated in their cognitive capacities, including potential symbolic perception and behavior.
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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.
John Mcnabb, James Cole
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Regional extinction(s) but continental persistence in European Acheulean culture [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: ExtinctionTraces 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 ...
Alastair Key
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High handaxe symmetry at the beginning of the European Acheulian: The data from la Noira (France) in context. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 In the last few decades, new discoveries have pushed the beginning of the biface-rich European Acheulian from 500 thousand years (ka) ago back to at least 700 ka, and possibly to 1 million years (Ma) ago.
Radu Iovita +5 more
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Manual restrictions on Palaeolithic technological behaviours [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 The causes of technological innovation in the Palaeolithic archaeological record are central to understanding Plio-Pleistocene hominin behaviour and temporal trends in artefact variation.
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A 1.4-million-year-old bone handaxe from Konso, Ethiopia, shows advanced tool technology in the early Acheulean [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Tomohiko Sasaki +2 more
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