Acheulean

Definitions

Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.

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“Assuming that language ability extends back to the hominids, we see⟳ a slow process⟳ of cultural development over millions of years, and then in the Acheulean period of Homo erectus, about three hundred thousand years ago, we find⟳ the first engraved tool.”

“When early modern humans – the ones who would eventually become⟳ us – started to move⟳ out of Africa something over a hundred thousand years ago, Acheulean tools were the technology of choice.”

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