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 ...
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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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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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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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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.
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Evol AnthropolABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia ...
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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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Un bifaz del Paleolitico Medio localizado en el entorno del yacimiento de Aranbaltza (Barrika, Bizkaia) [PDF]
Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2021 Se presenta el hallazgo de un bifaz de basalto en Lastarri, cerca del yacimiento de Aranbaltza. Se analizan sus características morfo-tecnológicas en relación con los bifaces atribidos al Paleolítico Inferior y Medio en el área cantábrica del País Vasco ...
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