Meaning Acheulean
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Acheulean


A stone tool industry, in use from about 1.6 million years ago until 125,000 years ago. It was characterized by large bifaces, particularly hand axes. This tool-making technology was a more complex wa [..]
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Acheulean


(archaeology) Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes. * '''2003''', Bill Bryson, ''A Short History of Nearly Everything'', BCA 200 [..]
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