ACHEULIAN

əshooˈlēən: see Paleolithic period.

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books on: Acheulian  - 123 results

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Early Human Behaviour in Global Context: The Rise and Diversity of the Lower Palaeolithic Record
Book by Michael D. Petraglia, Ravi Korisettar; Routledge, 1998
...bifaces are included in Figure 8.16. Acheulian industries were uncovered in four excavated...stratigraphy into several phases of the Acheulian. The earliest levels produced a few...layers VI and V, including mainly Upper Acheulian bifaces with distinct use of the Levallois...
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Time and Archaeology
Book by Tim Murray; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Archaeology--Methodology, Archaeology--Philosophy, Time
THE SOANIAN AND THE ACHEULIAN PROBLEM One of the most interesting...Paterson 1939; Movius 1948 . Thus the acheulian bifacial tradition was distributed...tradition and the Madrasian to the Acheulian. The absence of the Acheulian in...
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The History of Ancient Palestine
Book by Gosta W. Ahlstrom; Fortress Press, 1993
Subjects: Bible--O.T--History Of Biblical Events, Bronze Age--Palestine, Excavations (Archaeology)--Palestine, Jews--History--To 70 A.D, Palestine--Antiquities, Palestine--History--To 70 A.D
...of the finished product. The Middle Acheulian period is also poorly known, but, like...vast majority of both Early and Middle Acheulian sites have been either washed away during...Nevertheless, the several known Middle Acheulian sites reveal improvements in the capabilities...
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The African Experience
Book by Roland Oliver; Icon-Harper Collins, 1991
Subjects: Africa--History
...sub-Saharan savanna were making Acheulian tools, and so were in the business...the Nile corridor begins with the Acheulian assemblages from Khor Abu Anga...continues northwards with the finds of Acheulian artefacts in the Arkin district...
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The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Book by Leonard Cottrell; Hawthorn Books, 1960
Subjects: Archaeology--Dictionaries
...Achaemenians or Achaemenids, see Iran. Acheulian. This is sometimes known as Abbeville-Acheulian, since the Abbevillian culture can be seen as merely the first phase of the main Acheulian culture. The type-site from which this...
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journal articles on: Acheulian  - 14 results

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South Asia-Perennial Backwater or Object of Biased Assessment: A Discussion Based on Current Archaeological, Anthropological, and Genetic Evidence
Journal article by Varun Singh; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 49, 2010
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History, Archaeology--Research, Evolutionary biology--Research, Fossil hominids--Research, Genetic research, Mitochondrial DNA--Research, Population genetics--Research
...seen in the west. Lower Palaeolithic (Acheulian) stone artifacts have been found in...all major epochs of tool making from Acheulian of the Lower Paleolithic to Middle Paleolithic...that with better dating techniques the Acheulian horizon in India would be pushed back...
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How Ancient Is Lore? Southeast Asia Speaks Up
Journal article by Peter Metevelis; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 66, 2007
Subjects: Craters--Analysis, Folk literature--Case studies, Folklore--Case studies, Impact craters--Analysis, Meteorites--Portrayals, Southeast Asia--Natural history, Tektite--Analysis, Tektites--Analysis
...bearing sediments of twenty-four Acheulian-like stoneworking sites in the basin...humans: A plant residue analysis on Acheulian stone tools from Peninj (Tanzania...Researchers also now realize that, in Africa, Acheulian handaxes were used for woodworking as...
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Mental Time Travel and the Evolution of the Human Mind
Journal article by Thomas Suddendorf, Michael C. Corballis; Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, Vol. 123, 1997
Subjects: Genetic Psychology, Psychology, Social Psychology
...simply to satisfy a current need. The more sophisticated Acheulian culture associated with H. erectus around 1.6 million years...Suddendorf, 1994). As Savage-Rumbaugh ( 1994 a) put it, the Acheulian hand ax provides the first evidence of the "uncou pling...
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Stone Tools and the Uniqueness of Human culture/Outils De Pierre et Unicite De la Culture Humaine
Journal article by Iain Davidson, William C. Mcgrew; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, 2005
Subjects: Anthropological research, Civilization--Research, Culture--Research, Stone implements--History, Stone implements--Research, Stone implements--Usage
...from the Cottages Site. In Paleoecology and archeology of an Acheulian site at Caddington, England (ed.) C.G. Sampson, 83...Goren-Inbar, N., E. Werker C.S. Feibel 2002. The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Yaaqov, Israel. Oxford: Oxbow Books...
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Archeology and Reconstructing History in the Kenya Highlands: the Intellectual Legacies of G.w.b. Huntingford and Louis S.b. Leakey
Journal article by J. E. G Sutton; History In Africa, Vol. 34, 2007
...which Leakey recognized-correctly-as belonging to the Acheulian (hand-ax culture), as again defined in France (and found...prefix "Kenya" to the European cultural labels; hence Kenya Acheulian, Kenya Mousterian, and Kenya Aurignacian-and to a couple...
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magazine articles on: Acheulian  - 1 result

 
 
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Fast Facts
Magazine article by Nancy Pekala; Journal of Property Management, Vol. 68, March 2003
...Pisa is some 5.3m (17.4 ft) off-center. * Discovered in 1965, the Terra Amata site in Nice, France is the worlds oldest known habitation. It has the remains of 21 huts belonging to the Acheulian culture of 400,000 years ago.


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newspaper articles on: Acheulian  - 1 result

 
 
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Ancient Humans Used Hand Axes Earlier Than Thought, Says Research
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 14, 2011
Subjects: Archaeology--Research
...the journal Nature.The stone tools, known collectively as Acheulian tools, are believed to be the handiwork of the human ancestor...and Europe contain pebble tools and flakes, but no sign of Acheulian technology like hand axes.Why that is "remains an open...


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encyclopedia articles on: Acheulian  - 3 results

 
 
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Acheulian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ACHEULIAN shoo le n: see Paleolithic period . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Olduvai Gorge
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Australopithecus boisei, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus . In addition, the two earliest stone tool traditions, Oldowan and Acheulian (see Paleolithic period ), have been found along with fossil remains. Both the fossils and the tools have been important...
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Paleolithic Period
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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 ago. Stone...


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