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- adjective archaeology Of or pertaining to a lower
Paleolithic period characterized by the presence offlaked bifacial hand axes . - noun archaeology A lower
Paleolithic period characterized by the presence offlaked bifacial hand axes .
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Most believe that H. erectus, armed with an advanced tool kit, known as the Acheulean or hand-ax tradition, became the first human species capable of braving an array of challenging environments outside Africa.
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This suggests that Homo erectus was responsible for these particular tools, which were made with what scientists refer to as Acheulean technology.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 2011
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This suggests that Homo erectus was responsible for these particular tools, which were made with what scientists refer to as Acheulean technology.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 2011
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This suggests that Homo erectus was responsible for these particular tools, which were made with what scientists refer to as Acheulean technology.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 2011
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That may be a stretch, they conceded, but the tools resemble artifacts from the stone technology known as Acheulean, which originated with prehuman populations in Africa.
Analysis 2010
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That may be a stretch, they conceded, but the tools resemble artifacts from the stone technology known as Acheulean, which originated with prehuman populations in Africa.
Analysis 2010
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Ryan Gibbon and his colleagues dated hand axes and related stone implements, collectively known as Acheulean artifacts, using measures of the relative decay of radioactive forms of aluminium and beryllium in quartz grains from the soil and gravel bearing the artifacts.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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What the kids call "Acheulean," others call pretentious nonsense.
The Morning News themorningnews.org 2010
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"Even though raw material suitable for making Acheulean tools was readily available," he says, "stone tools found with the two skulls are of a pre-Acheulean pebble-chopper type that appeared in Africa as early as 2.4 million years ago, arguing for early, pre-Acheulean migrations."
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The very lowest layers of cultural material reflected the beginnings of the Acheulean handaxe culture some 1,4 million years ago.
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