Acheulean
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From French acheuléen, from Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens where the first tools from this period were found.
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Acheulean (not comparable)
- (archaeology) Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 95:
- 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.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 402:
- 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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Acheulean
- (archaeology) A lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.
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