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Acheulian

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[CP] Lower Palaeolithic tool‐making tradition, found throughout Europe, western Asia, and Africa, which is closely associated with Homo erectus. The tradition was initially ...

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)

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... ( Acheulean ) [CP] Lower Palaeolithic tool‐making tradition, found throughout Europe, western Asia, and Africa, which is closely associated with Homo erectus . The tradition was initially named, after the type‐site assemblage from St Acheul , Amiens, France, as the Epoque de St Acheul by de Mortillet in 1872 , and after 1925 as the Acheulian. The most distinctive stone tools were ovate and pear‐shaped handaxes, but assemblages also include flake tools and waste flakes which show considerable regional variation. In Europe the Acheulian Tradition...

Acheulian Tradition

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Derek A. Roe and Gonen Sharon

The Oxford Companion To Archaeology (2 ed.)

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...long period of time. If one examines in detail the Acheulian lithic assemblages of any one area, it is immediately apparent that there are substantial techno-typological differences between them, as well as changes and developments over time in the ways in which the tools were made. But even so, the general stability in the type of tools used and their size and morphology within the Acheulian Tradition remains remarkable. Acheulian Stone Tools. Hand axes, widely regarded as the hallmark of the Acheulian, are relatively large, bifacially knapped tools. Oval,...

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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)

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Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)

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The Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2 ed.)

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Acheulian

Acheulian  

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[CP]Lower Palaeolithic tool‐making tradition, found throughout Europe, western Asia, and Africa, which is closely associated with Homo erectus. The tradition was initially named, after the type‐site ...
cleaver

cleaver  

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[Ar]Roughly U‐shaped stone tool with a transverse cutting edge. Acheulian bifacial cleavers resemble truncated handaxes with a straight or oblique edge instead of a point. On flake cleavers the ...
cylindrical hammer technique

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[De]Removal of shallow flakes in the manufacture of handaxes and other tools, by using an implement of a softer material (wood or bone) than the tool itself. Characteristic of the Acheulian and later ...
Victoria West technique

Victoria West technique  

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[De]A variant of the Levallois technique in which the blow to remove the flake is made on the side of the core. Produces short wide flakes, often transformed into flake cleavers in the African ...
ovate

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[Ar]A type of Acheulian bifacially worked handaxe with an oval or elliptical shape. Most are relatively thin in cross‐section, and have either a flat or deliberately twisted profile.
Abbevillian

Abbevillian  

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[CP]Now obsolete, this term was originally proposed by Abbé Breuil in ad 1939 to describe the pre‐Acheulian flint industries of western Europe on the basis of material from Abbeville in France. Also ...
Fauresmith

Fauresmith  

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[CP]A stoneworking industry found in south and east Africa related to the late Acheulian, characterized by small pointed and neatly made handaxes, and named after a site in the Orange Free State. At ...
Sangoan Culture

Sangoan Culture  

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[CP]Middle Palaeolithic, post‐Acheulian, stoneworking industry found in equatorial and southeastern Africa, named after the type‐site of Sango Bay on Lake Victoria, Uganda. The industry is ...
Swanscombe, Kent, England

Swanscombe, Kent, England  

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[Si]A gravel pit in the lower Thames Valley which preserved a series of river terraces containing useful environmental evidence, abundant mollusc and faunal remains, and largeassemblages of Lower ...
Olorgesaillie

Olorgesaillie  

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Is an Acheulian hand-axe site in southern Kenya, about 34 miles (55 km) southwest of Nairobi, which dates to about half a million years ago. The artifactrich location was discovered ...
biface

biface  

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[De]General term referring to a stone core tool that is usually pointed at one end and flaked on both flat faces until thin and sharp‐edged. Mainly found in Palaeolithic tool industries, and the ...
Torralba/ambrona

Torralba/ambrona  

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The Spanish open-air sites of Torralba and Ambrona, in the region of Soria, 93 miles (150 km) northeast of Madrid, are among the most important of lower Paleolithic Europe. Located ...
Hoxnian

Hoxnian  

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An interglacial period and a series of temperate-climate deposits named after Hoxne, Suffolk, England, with a characteristic vegetational sequence that occurs in tills of the earliest glacial stages, ...
Clactonian

Clactonian  

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Of, relating to, or denoting a Lower Palaeolithic culture represented by flint implements found at Clacton-on-Sea in SE England, dated to about 250,000–200,000 years ago.
Terra Amata

Terra Amata  

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The open-air Paleolithic site of Terra Amata, in southern France, is one of the earliest to have yielded evidence of artificial shelters. The site is located on the Mediterranean coast ...

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