How to use in-sentence of “acheulean”:
– Flaking technology at the Acheulean site of Boxgrove, West Sussex, England.
– The most distinctive tool of erectus was the Acheulean hand axe, first invented 1.8 million years ago.
– Different Archaeologyarcheological finds have been discovered in its valley: The Acheulean culture is named after Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens.
– It was followed by the more sophisticated Acheulean industry.
– Beds III and IV have produced Acheulean tools and fossil bones from more than 600,000 years ago.
– Early “Homo erectus” appears to inherit Oldowan technology and refines it into the Acheulean industry beginning 1.7 million years ago..
– The Acheulean hand axe lasted for over a million years as the main tool.
– With the change from Olduwan to Acheulean technique, hominins got more of a return for a given output of energy and could do more.
Example sentences of “acheulean”:
– In some regions Acheulean tool-using groups were contemporary with other, less sophisticated industries such as the Clactonian.
– More than a million years ago Acheulean tool users left Africa to colonize Eurasia.
– The name “ergaster” means “workman”, in reference to the Acheulean hand axe industry developed by the species.
– The Acheulean was not a neatly defined period, but a tool-making technique which flourished especially well in early prehistory.
– Some scientists think that this Acheulean axe, made of red quartzite, was some kind of ritual offering for a funeral.
– Later forms of early humans also used Acheulean techniques and are described below.
– In individual regions, this dating can be considerably refined; in Europe for example, Acheulean methods did not reach the continent until around 400 thousand years ago and in smaller study areas, the date ranges can be much shorter.
– Together with footprints were other hominin and animal skeletal remains and Acheulean artifacts.
- In some regions Acheulean tool-using groups were contemporary with other, less sophisticated industries such as the Clactonian.
- More than a million years ago Acheulean tool users left Africa to colonize Eurasia.
- The name "ergaster" means "workman", in reference to the Acheulean hand axe industry developed by the species.
– John Frere was the first to suggest in writing a very ancient date for Acheulean hand-axes.
– The Clactonian industry may have co-existed with the Acheulean industry.
– This kind of axe is typical of the Acheulean and the Mousterian cultures, and is the longest-used tool of human history.
– Then, later, Acheulean tools occur at the same time as the more sophisticated Mousterian.
– Neanderthal stone tools are called Mousterian, and are an advance on the Acheulean tools made by earlier species of Man.