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Prehistory and the Beginnings of Civilization - Vol. 1
Book by Jacquetta Hawkes, Leonard Woolley; Harper & Row, 1963
Subjects:	Prehistoric Peoples
...can be recognized as prototypes of the Abbevillian hand-axes which occur in the overlying...in showing beyond question that the Abbevillian culture and its immediate inheritor...thought to have advanced to the full Abbevillian type of culture is in central Africa...

The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Book by Leonard Cottrell; Hawthorn Books, 1960
Subjects:	Archaeology--Dictionaries
A Abbevillian. This culture of the Lower Palaeolithic...of the Acheulians. The butt of the Abbevillian hand-axe was often left unworked...becoming only more finely worked. Although Abbevillian hand-axes were first identified in...

The Prehistoric Foundations of Europe to the Mycenean Age
Book by C. F. C. Hawkes; Methuen, 1940
Subjects:	Europe--Civilization--History, Europe--History, Prehistoric Peoples--Europe
...cold. For what seems an unworn Late Abbevillian hand-axe has been found at Sidestrand...called Westleton series. The makers of Abbevillian hand-axes are believed to have retreated...Europe brings the superseding of the Abbevillian by the earliest European stages of its...

Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites
Book by Brian P. Kooyman; University of Calgary Press, 2000
Subjects:	Archaeology--Methodology, Great Plains--Antiquities, Indians Of North America--Great Plains--Antiquities, Stone Implements
...by hard hammer percussion are termed Abbevillian after a site at the town of Abbeville...Wymer 1982:103 . Having said this, Abbevillian handaxes continue in use into much later...precise date is less clear, but the early Abbevillian handaxes probably date to about 500...

Evolution, Genetics, and Man
Book by Theodosius Dobzhansky; John Wiley & Sons, 1955
Subjects:	Evolution, Genetics, Human Beings--Origin
...Swanscombe Peking Man Java Man Second Glacial Mindel Peking Man ? Java Man Clactonian, Abbevillian First Interglacial Java Man, Australo pithecus ? Abbevillian First Glacial Gunz Australopithecus ? Villafranchian glacial Age. Concerning the duration...

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Origins and Development of the Field of Prehistory in Burma
Journal article by Michael A. Aung-Thwin; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 40, 2001
Subjects:	Archaeology--Myanmar, Myanmar--Antiquities, Prehistoric peoples--Myanmar
...marked difference between the Zhou kovdian type cultures of China and Indo-China with those of the African and European Abbevillian and Acheulean industries, whereby he considered the former generally more primitive, and thus seemingly implying some sort...

Plumpton Atr
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), December 14, 2009
Subjects:	Aircraft industry
...WESTLIN WINDS 1.35-EL DANCER 2.05-ABBEVILLIAN (NAP) 2.35-WHERES JOHNNY 3.10-HOBBS DREAM 3.40-LEMON SILK DOUBLE: ABBEVILLIAN and BESTOWED (5.20 Wolverhampton...WESTLIN WINDS 1.35-FRANCHOEK 2.05-ABBEVILLIAN 2.35-HELM 3.10-ALBERBROOK GIRL...

Bookies Fear Buck's Fizz
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 15, 2009
Subjects:	Bookmakers (Gambling)
...JOHNSON has two rides at Folkestone today, Qaspal and Volador, as he tries to land the 2,000th winner of his career. On song: Aldertune (right) and Ruby Walsh are poised to jump past Tony McCoy and Abbevillian at Plumpton GETTY

Data Bank
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 23, 2009
Subjects:	Banks (Finance)
...4 to 6). KEMPTON: 1.25 Whiteoak (2); 2.00 Picture In The Sky (6); The Jazz Musician (2). LUDLOW: 12.30 Abbevillian (2); 1.05 Distiller (2). WHOs HOT: TRAINERS (last 14 days) M Todhunter 2 wins from 4 runners (50%); Jim Best...

Mullins Earns Belated Win
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), December 15, 2009
...a half pounds more than he weighed out aboard fourth-placed Diktalina. Egerton put up Tony McCoy on 11-10 favourite Abbevillian in the Bob Kiernan Memorial "National Hunt"Novices Hurdle but a peck after the last saw him go down by half a length to...

Bookies Fear Buck's Fizz
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 15, 2009
Subjects:	Bookmakers (Gambling)
...BERRY will succeed recently retired Mick Kinane as stable jockey for John Oxx in 2010. m.townend@dailymail.co.uk On song: Aldertune (right) and Ruby Walsh are poised to jump past Tony McCoy and Abbevillian at Plumpton GETTY

Abbevillian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABBEVILLIAN see Paleolithic period . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

Chellean-Abbevillian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHELLEAN-ABBEVILLIAN* see Paleolithic period . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.*

Paleolithic Period
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...industries of the early species of humans called Homo erectus include the Choukoutienian of China and the Clactonian, Chellean-Abbevillian, Acheulian and Levalloisian represented at various sites in Europe, Africa, and Asia, from 100,000 to 500,000 years...

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