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Journal articles on the topic "The Acheulean"

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Chauhan, Parth R., and August G. Costa. "New perspectives on Acheulean and Acheulean-like adaptations." Quaternary International 480 (June 2018): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.003.

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de la Torre, Ignacio. "The origins of the Acheulean: past and present perspectives on a major transition in human evolution." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371, no. 1698 (July 5, 2016): 20150245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0245.

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The emergence of the Acheulean from the earlier Oldowan constitutes a major transition in human evolution, the theme of this special issue. This paper discusses the evidence for the origins of the Acheulean, a cornerstone in the history of human technology, from two perspectives; firstly, a review of the history of investigations on Acheulean research is presented. This approach introduces the evolution of theories throughout the development of the discipline, and reviews the way in which cumulative knowledge led to the prevalent explanatory framework for the emergence of the Acheulean. The second part presents the current state of the art in Acheulean origins research, and reviews the hard evidence for the appearance of this technology in Africa around 1.7 Ma, and its significance for the evolutionary history of Homo erectus . This article is part of the themed issue ‘Major transitions in human evolution’.
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Masojć, Mirosław, Ju Yong Kim, Joanna Krupa-Kurzynowska, Young Kwan Sohn, Maciej Ehlert, Grzegorz Michalec, Marzena Cendrowska, et al. "The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 - an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan." PLOS ONE 16, no. 3 (March 23, 2021): e0248279. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248279.

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Although essential for reconstructing hominin behaviour during the Early Palaeolithic, only a handful of Acheulean sites have been dated in the Eastern Sahara region. This is due to the scarcity of sites for this time period and the lack of datable material. However, recent excavations in the Atbara region (Sudan) have provided unique opportunities to analyse and date Acheulean stone tools. We report here on EDAR 7, part of a cluster of Acheulean and Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites that were recently discovered in the Eastern Desert Atbara River (EDAR) region, located in the Eastern Desert (Sudan) far from the Nile valley. At EDAR 7, a 3.5 metre sedimentary sequence was excavated, allowing an Acheulean assemblage to be investigated using a combination of sedimentology, stone tool studies and optically stimulated luminescence dating (OSL). The site has delivered a complete Acheulean knapping chaine opératoire, providing new information about the Saharan Acheulean. The EDAR 7 site is interpreted as a remnant of a campsite based on the co-occurrence of two reduction modes: one geared towards the production of Large Cutting Tools (LCTs), and the other based on the flaking of small debitage and production of flake tools. Particularly notable in the EDAR 7 assemblage is the abundance of cleavers, most of which display evidence of flake production. Implementation of giant Kombewa flakes was also observed. A geometric morphometric analysis of hand-axes was conducted to verify a possible Late Acheulean assemblage standardisation in the Nubian Sahara. In addition, the analysis of micro-traces and wear on the artefacts has provided information on the use history of the Acheulean stone tools. Sediment analyses and OSL dating show that the EDAR 7 sequence contains the oldest Acheulean encampment remains in the Eastern Sahara, dated to the MIS 11 or earlier. This confirms that Homo erectus occupied the EDAR region during Middle Pleistocene humid periods, and demonstrates that habitable corridors existed between the Ethiopian Highlands, the Nile and the Red Sea coast, allowing population dispersals across the continent and out of it.
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Deino, Alan L., Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Alison S. Brooks, John E. Yellen, Warren D. Sharp, and Richard Potts. "Chronology of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in eastern Africa." Science 360, no. 6384 (March 15, 2018): 95–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aao2216.

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The origin of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) marks the transition from a highly persistent mode of stone toolmaking, the Acheulean, to a period of increasing technological innovation and cultural indicators associated with the evolution ofHomo sapiens. We used argon-40/argon-39 and uranium-series dating to calibrate the chronology of Acheulean and early MSA artifact–rich sedimentary deposits in the Olorgesailie basin, southern Kenya rift. We determined the age of late Acheulean tool assemblages from 615,000 to 499,000 years ago, after which a large technological and faunal transition occurred, with a definitive MSA lacking Acheulean elements beginning most likely by ~320,000 years ago, but at least by 305,000 years ago. These results establish the oldest repository of MSA artifacts in eastern Africa.
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Shipton, Ceri, Chris Clarkson, and Rommy Cobden. "Were Acheulean Bifaces Deliberately Made Symmetrical? Archaeological and Experimental Evidence." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 29, no. 1 (July 5, 2018): 65–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095977431800032x.

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Acheulean bifaces dominate the archaeological record for 1.5 million years. The meaning behind the often symmetrical forms of these tools is the topic of considerable debate, with explanations ranging from effectiveness as a cutting tool to sexual display. Some, however, question whether the symmetry seen in many Acheulean bifaces is intentional at all, with suggestions that it is merely the result of a bias in hominin perception or an inevitable consequence of bifacial flaking. In this paper we address the issue of intention in biface symmetry. First, we use transmission chain experiments designed to track symmetry trends in the replication of biface outlines. Secondly, we use archaeological data to assess the symmetry of Acheulean bifaces from British, East African and Indian assemblages in relation to reduction intensity; the degree of bifaciality; and the symmetry of four Middle Palaeolithic bifacial core assemblages. Thirdly, we look at specific examples of the reduction sequences that produced symmetrical Acheulean cleavers at the sites of Olorgesailie CL1-1, Isinya, Chirki, Morgaon and Bhimbetka. All three lines of evidence support the notion that symmetry was a deliberately imposed property of Acheulean bifaces and not an epiphenomenon of hominin visual perception or bifacial technology.
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Hodgson, Derek, and John Mc Nabb. "More on Acheulean Tools." Current Anthropology 46, no. 4 (August 2005): 647–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/432749.

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Cole, James. "Examining the Presence of Symmetry within Acheulean Handaxes: A Case Study in the British Palaeolithic." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25, no. 4 (October 15, 2015): 713–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774315000141.

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This paper examines the relationship between the presence of symmetry and the Acheulean biface within a predominantly British Lower Palaeolithic context. There has been a long-standing notion within Palaeolithic studies that Acheulean handaxes are symmetrical and become increasingly so as time progress as a reflection of increasing hominin cognitive and behavioural complexity. Specifically, the presence of symmetry within Acheulean handaxes is often seen as one of the first examples of material culture being used to mediate social relationships. However, this notion has never been satisfactorily tested against a large data set. This paper seeks to address the issue by conducting an analysis of some 2680 bifaces across a chronological and geographical span. The results from the sample presented here are that symmetrical bifaces do not appear to have a particularly strong presence in any assemblage and do not appear to increase as time progress. These results have significant implications for modern researchers assessing the cognitive and behavioural complexities of Acheulean hominins.
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Key, Alastair J. M., and Christopher J. Dunmore. "Manual restrictions on Palaeolithic technological behaviours." PeerJ 6 (August 16, 2018): e5399. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5399.

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The causes of technological innovation in the Palaeolithic archaeological record are central to understanding Plio-Pleistocene hominin behaviour and temporal trends in artefact variation. Palaeolithic archaeologists frequently investigate the Oldowan-Acheulean transition and technological developments during the subsequent million years of the Acheulean technocomplex. Here, we approach the question of why innovative stone tool production techniques occur in the Lower Palaeolithic archaeological record from an experimental biomechanical and evolutionary perspective. Nine experienced flintknappers reproduced Oldowan flake tools, ‘early Acheulean’ handaxes, and ‘late Acheulean’ handaxes while pressure data were collected from their non-dominant (core-holding) hands. For each flake removal or platform preparation event performed, the percussor used, the stage of reduction, the core securing technique utilised, and the relative success of flake removals were recorded. Results indicate that more heavily reduced, intensively shaped handaxes with greater volumetric controls do not necessarily require significantly greater manual pressure than Oldowan flake tools or earlier ‘rougher’ handaxe forms. Platform preparation events do, however, require significantly greater pressure relative to either soft or hard hammer flake detachments. No significant relationships were identified between flaking success and pressure variation. Our results suggest that the preparation of flake platforms, a technological behaviour associated with the production of late Acheulean handaxes, could plausibly have been restricted prior to the emergence of more forceful precision-manipulative capabilities than those required for earlier lithic technologies.
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Daura, Joan, Montserrat Sanz, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Dirk L. Hoffmann, Rolf M. Quam, María Cruz Ortega, Elena Santos, et al. "New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 13 (March 13, 2017): 3397–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1619040114.

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The Middle Pleistocene is a crucial time period for studying human evolution in Europe, because it marks the appearance of both fossil hominins ancestral to the later Neandertals and the Acheulean technology. Nevertheless, European sites containing well-dated human remains associated with an Acheulean toolkit remain scarce. The earliest European hominin crania associated with Acheulean handaxes are at the sites of Arago, Atapuerca Sima de los Huesos (SH), and Swanscombe, dating to 400–500 ka (Marine Isotope Stage 11–12). The Atapuerca (SH) fossils and the Swanscombe cranium belong to the Neandertal clade, whereas the Arago hominins have been attributed to an incipient stage of Neandertal evolution, toHomo heidelbergensis, or to a subspecies ofHomo erectus. A recently discovered cranium (Aroeira 3) from the Gruta da Aroeira (Almonda karst system, Portugal) dating to 390–436 ka provides important evidence on the earliest European Acheulean-bearing hominins. This cranium is represented by most of the right half of a calvarium (with the exception of the missing occipital bone) and a fragmentary right maxilla preserving part of the nasal floor and two fragmentary molars. The combination of traits in the Aroeira 3 cranium augments the previously documented diversity in the European Middle Pleistocene fossil record.
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Shipton, C. B. K., M. D. Petraglia, and K. Paddayya. "Stone tool experiments and reduction methods at the Acheulean site of Isampur Quarry, India." Antiquity 83, no. 321 (September 1, 2009): 769–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00098987.

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What better way to understand how to make a handaxe or cleaver than getting into an Acheulean quarry and doing it yourself. The authors experimented at Isampur Quarry in India, finding that handaxes were best produced by reducing a slab to shape, while cleavers were best made by striking large flakes. There was a good correspondence with the ancient implements, and the authors deduced that Acheulean hominins were learning and transmitting standardised manufacturing methods to each other.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "The Acheulean"

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Shipton, Ceri Ben Kersey. "Cognition and sociality in the Acheulean." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612311.

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Field, Annabel Sarah. "The Middle Pleistocene in transition : lithic assemblages and changing social relations between OIS 12 and 6 in Europe and Africa." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269584.

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Agarwal, Neetu. "Technology of large flake acheulean at lalitpur, central india." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/306132.

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Aquesta tesi es proposa d’estudiar l’Aixelià a Lalitpur, Índia Central, sota l’òptica del context del jaciment, el procés de formació del jaciment i l’organització tecnològica duta a terme pels hominins. Pretén comprendre els trets característics de l’organització tecnològica aixeliana al jaciment de Lalitpur. S’ha dut a terme mitjançant l’anàlisi del conjunt complet recuperat en el jaciment i no només focalitzant-la en els bifaços com a “fòssil tipus” de l’Aixelià com s’ha fet tradicionalment. En aquest sentit, s’ha emprat l’aproximació pròpia de l’anàlisi de la cadena operativa per comprendre l’organització tecnològica completa des de l’obtenció de la matèria primera, a la reducció dels nuclis, la producció de les ascles, llur modificació en eines configurades, l’ús, el reavivat, el seu abandonament i l’alteració en el decurs de processos post-deposicionals. També s’han tingut en compte atributs quantitatius per permetre les comparacions amb altres conjunts. Com que el conjunt va ser recuperat en contextos pròxims a la superfície, s’han emprès també estudis detallats del context del jaciment i dels processos de la seva formació a fi de confirmar la integritat del conjunt. El tipus de matèria primera ha estat sovint considerat com un factor important que afecta les eines de pedra, sobretot des del moment en què el conjunt està manufacturat principalment en granit. Per aquesta raó, s’han dut a terme estudis detallats de la matèria primera. Per acabar l’Aixelià de Lalitpur ha estat comparat amb d’altres conjunts ben estudiats de l’Índia, Àfrica i Europa a fi de situar l’Aixelià indi en un context global. L’estudi de l’organització tecnològica dels hominins aixelians de Lalitpur ha servit per a deduir-ne una imatge entenedora de la variabilitat tecnològica de les eines de pedra dels hominins aixelians. Ha ajudat en una redefinició de l’Aixelià de l’Índia i en la seva situació en un context global. A més ha servit per clarificar el concepte de “Aixelià de Grans Ascles” i les implicacions comportamentals d’aquesta tecnologia. També ha destacat la importància dels jaciments “de superfície” en l’estudi del Paleolític inferior, especialment a l’Índia i ha mostrat la importància dels estudis de la formació dels jaciments en la comprensió de les característiques dels jaciments paleolítics.
Esta tesis se propone el estudio del Achelense de Lalitpur, India Central, bajo la óptica del contexto del yacimiento, el proceso de formación del mismo y la organización tecnológica llevada a cabo por los homininos. Pretende comprender los rasgos característicos de la organización tecnológica achelense en el yacimiento de Lalitpur. Se ha llevado a cabo mediante el análisis del conjunto completo recuperado en el yacimiento y no tan sólo focalizándolo en los bifaces como “fósil tipo” del Achelense, tal como se había hecho tradicionalmente. En este sentido, se ha empleado la aproximación propia del análisis de la cadena operativa para comprender la organización tecnológica completa desde la obtención de la materia prima, a la reducción de los núcleos, la producción de lascas, su modificación en herramientas configuradas, su uso, el reavivado, su abandono y la alteración a lo largo de procesos post-deposicionales. También se han tenido en cuenta atributos cuantitativos para permitir las comparaciones con otros conjuntos. Como el conjunto fue recuperado en contextos próximos a la superficie, se han emprendido también estudios detallados del contexto del yacimiento y de los procesos de su formación a fin de confirmar la integridad del conjunto. El tipo de materia prima ha sido a menudo considerado como un factor importante que condiciona las herramientas de piedra, sobre todo desde el momento en que el conjunto está manufacturado principalmente en granito. Por esta razón, se han llevado a cabo estudios detallados de la materia prima. Para terminar el Achelense de Lalitpur ha sido comparado con otros conjuntos bien estudiados de la India, África y Europa con el fin de situar el Achelense indio en un contexto global. El estudio de la organización tecnológica de los homininos achelenses de Lalitpur ha servido para deducir una imagen clara de la variabilidad tecnológica de las herramientas líticas de los homininos achelenses. Ha ayudado a la redefinición del Achelense de la India y en su situación en un contexto global. Además ha servido para clarificar el concepto de “Achelense de Grandes Lascas” y las implicaciones comportamentales de esta tecnología. También ha destacado la importancia de yacimientos de “superficie” en el estudio del Paleolítico inferior, especialmente en la India y ha mostrado la importancia de los estudios de la formación del yacimiento en la comprensión de la naturaleza de los yacimientos paleolíticos.
The present thesis attempts to study the Acheulean at Lalitpur, Central India in terms of site context, formation processes and technological organization employed by the hominins. It attempts to understand the characteristic features of the Acheulean technological organization at the site of Lalitpur. This has been done through the examination of the entire assemblage from the site and not just focusing on bifaces as the ‘type fossil’ of the Acheulean as has traditionally been done. For this purpose, the chaîne opératoire approach has been used to understand the entire technological organization from raw material procurement, to core reduction, blank production, modification into tools, use, resharpening, discard and alteration subject to post-depositional processes. Quantitative attributes have also been recorded to enable comparisons. Since the assemblage is recovered from near surface contexts, detailed studies of site context and formation processes were also undertaken to assess the integrity of the assemblage. Raw material has often been considered as an important factor affecting stone tools, particularly since the assemblage is predominantly made on granite, therefore detailed raw material studies were carried out. Finally the Acheulean at Lalitpur was compared it with other well studied assemblages in India, Africa and Europe to place the Indian Acheulean in global context The study of the technological organization of the Acheulean hominins at Lalitpur has helped in deriving a comprehensive picture of the stone tool technological repertoire of the Acheulean hominins. It has helped redefine the Indian Acheulean and place it in global context. Further it has helped in clarifying the concept of ‘Large Flake Acheulean’ and the behavioural implications of this technology. It has also highlighted the importance of ‘surface’ sites in the study of the Lower Palaeolithic, particularly in India and pointed out the importance of site formation studies in understanding the nature of Palaeolithic sites.
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Machin, Anna Jane. "The Acheulean handaxe : symmetry, function and Early and Middle Pleistocene hominin behaviour." Thesis, University of Reading, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434309.

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Meneses, Maria Paula. "New methodological approaches to the study of the acheulean from southern Mozambique /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : UMI dissertation services, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40020177r.

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Hounsell, S. P. "Quantifying stone tool performance : with especial reference to the Oldowan and Acheulean lithic traditions." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415653.

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Clément, Sophie. "Les techniques de percussion : un reflet des changements techniques durant l’Acheuléen ?" Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://faraway.parisnanterre.fr/login?url=http://bdr.parisnanterre.fr/theses/intranet/2019/2019PA100033/2019PA100033.pdf.

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Durant l’Acheuléen, des milliers de pièces bifaciales ont été façonnées, dans un éventail de matières premières, allant du silex au basalte en passant par l’os et le calcaire. La variabilité technique et morphologique incontestable de ces outils emblématiques a conduit à diverses interprétations, sur les moyens mis en œuvre pour leur confection. Les techniques de percussion utilisées ont été présentées comme ayant une incidence sur la qualité d’exécution ou le degré de finition de celui-ci. Le travail entrepris dans cette thèse de doctorat propose comprendre les liens entre techniques de percussion et changement technique à travers le prisme des matières premières microgrenues et tenaces en proposant une méthodologie renouvelée. Une expérimentation réalisée exclusivement avec des matériaux africains, pour les produits façonnés comme pour les percuteurs, combinée à une grille d’analyse dédiée permet d’aborder la question de la reconnaissance des stigmates et les réactions des matériaux. La mise en relation de l’analyse structurelle des pièces bifaciales avec les techniques de percussion utilisées donne des éléments de réponses sur la question du lien entre la technique de percussion et la morphologie du biface, permettant ainsi de comprendre la hiérarchie technique qui peut en découler. Grâce à d’autres résultats concernant à la fois des collections issues de sites du sud-ouest de la France et une expérimentation sur des quartzites, l’importance du concept de départ et de la structure du biface est ainsi mise en exergue, face aux possibilités qu’offrent les techniques de percussion. Les perspectives obtenues autorisent alors une réflexion nouvelle sur la place de ces techniques pendant la période acheuléenne
During Acheulean period, thousands of bifacial tools have been knapped from a vast range of raw materials like flint, volcanic stones (e.g.basalt, phonolite), bone or limestone. Technical and morpholigical variability of these emblematic tools can’t be denied and led to diverse interpretations regarding the means adopted to produce them. The percussion techniques often got presented as having an impact on the quality of execution or the degree of completion. This PhD aimed at understanding the link between percussion techniques and technical changes through the prism of grained and resistant raw materials by renewing the methodological approach. An experimentation completed only with african raw materials including knapped stones and percussive tools, in addition with a specific evaluation grid, entitles us to observe physical reactions and to talk about scarrecognition. Structural analysis of bifacial tools related to percussion techniques helps to define the link between those techniques and the morphological shapes of the tools and thererefore understanding the resulting hierarchy. More analysis of archaeological lithic assembling from sites in southern France and an other experimentation on quartizte underline the importance of the original (or initial) concept and of the tool’s structure. These perspectives entitle us to propose a new reflexion about the importance of those percussion techniques during Acheulean period
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Viallet, Cyril. "Potentiel fonctionnel des outils bifaciaux au Pléistocène moyen en contexte méditerranéen. Analyse de la structure et des macro-traces des outils bifaciaux de la Caune de l’Arago, Terra Amata, Orgnac 3 et du Lazaret." Thesis, Perpignan, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PERP0028.

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Les différentes et nombreuses études menées sur le biface depuis le XIXème siècle, révèlent une multiplicité de fonctions potentielles, donnant l’image d’un outil polyfonctionnel. Néanmoins, cette vision est biaisée et découle de l’absence de corrélation entre les données issues des analyses fonctionnelles et la classification typologique en vigueur. Ainsi l’objectif de ce travail est de constituer des groupes d’outils bifaciaux aux potentiels fonctionnels communs et de les rattacher, quand cela est possible, à un mode d’action spécifique. Pour cela, ce travail se propose de corréler les données productionnelles et fonctionnelles par le biais d’une analyse structurelle, expérimentale et tracéologique. Cette dernière a été effectuée aux dépens de 5 séries de bifaces provenant de 4 sites du Sud-Est de la France, datés du Pléistocène moyen. Les résultats obtenus permettent de mettre en évidence neuf groupes de bifaces avec des potentialités fonctionnelles spécifiques. Parmi ces groupes, trois sont corrélés à des fonctionnements eux-mêmes particuliers. Ainsi, pour les sites étudiés, le terme de biface recouvre a minima trois types d’outils : des outils de coupes rentrantes caractérisés par un tranchant d’angle aigu sur un bord en association avec la pointe ; des outils de coupe en percussion lancée caractérisés par un tranchant transversal sur un support avec une base corticale épaisse ; et des outils portant des traces de percussion sur une pointe robuste associée à une base épaisse et corticale, potentiellement destinés à fouir/creuser. Il apparaît ainsi que, dans le Sud-Est de la France au Pléistocène moyen, le biface n’est pas un outil polyfonctionnel. Le terme recouvre ici plusieurs groupes d’outils bifaciaux aux potentialités fonctionnelles diverses. Deux fonctionnements principaux - translation longitudinale et percussion lancée indirecte - sont associés à des outils bifaciaux présentant des morphologies spécifiques. Il est possible d’observer un usage du façonnage bifacial différent en fonction des gisements. Les différents outils bifaciaux ne sont pas tous représentés de la même manière, reflétant des contraintes extrinsèques ou intrinsèques et ajoutant de la variabilité à la définition de l’Acheuléen
Since the XIX century dinstinct and numerous studies on bifaces reveal a multiplicity of potential function, giving the impression of a multifunctional tool. However this vision is biased and come from the absence of correlation between data from functional analyses and data from typological classification. Thus the objective of this work is to compose bifacial tool group depending from them potential function and when it’s possible to link them to a specific action.For this purpose, this works intend to correlate productional and functional data by structural, experimental and traceologic analyses. The latter has been done on 5 biface serie from 4 sites in the South-East France, dated from the Middle Pleistocene.Achieved results highlight nine biface groups with specific functional potentiality. Among these groups, three are correlated with particular function. Thus, for the site studied, the term biface cover a least three tools type: “coupe rentrante” tools characterize by an acute angle edge on a board associated with the tip; cutting tools in pitched percussion characterize by a transversal edge on a support with a thick cortical base; and tools bearing percussion marks on a robust tip associate to a thick and cortical base, potentially aim to dig.In the South-East France during the Middle Pleistocene the biface doesn’t appears to be a multifunctional tool. This term cover here different bifacial tool group with diverse functional potentiality. Two principal functions – longitudinal translation and indirect pitch percussion- are associate to bifacial tools presenting specific morphology. It is possible to observe a different use of the bifacial “faconnage” depending the deposit. Bifacial tools are not represent in the same way, reflecting extrinsic or intrinsic constraint and adding variability for the Acheulean definition
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Leroyer, Mathieu. "Palethnologie acheuléenne : de la technologie bifaciale à l'organisation de la subsistance collective : étude du site de Boxgrove - Eartham Pit (West Sussex, Angleterre) et de deux sites du cours moyen de la Seine." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01H016.

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Cette thèse étudie les chaînes opératoires bifaciales de l’Acheuléen (600 à 280 Ka BP). Axée sur le site de Boxgrove (Angleterre), elle sous-tend une meilleure compréhension des enjeux cognitifs et comportementaux de cette technique. Elle mobilise, à cette fin, un programme d’analyse « palethnologique », guidant l’étude des faits techniques jusqu’aux inférences sociales. Le mémoire se décline en trois parties : 1) L’analyse historiographique confronte en détail les données (archéologiques, environnementales etc.) disponibles et les interprétations associées. Tout en détaillant la richesse des approches mobilisées, elle plaide pour un dépassement raisonnable et raisonné des vues purement utilitaires ou symboliques. Les enjeux et difficultés de l’approche palethnologique au Paléolithique ancien, les solutions envisagées et la méthodologie sont posés. 2) La deuxième partie offre une application sur les nombreuses occupations de Boxgrove. L’analyse des chaînes opératoires identifie une norme technoculturelle exigeante. Son incidence sur la fonctionnalité de l’outil et sur l’expression de savoir-faire individuels est mesurée. L’opportunité de confronter des tailleurs de compétences inégales à travers différents contextes d’activité (abattage, regroupement), croisée à d’autres évidences (faune, géomorphologie), déterminent l’interprétation du site. Une interprétation socio-économique cohérente du biface est dès lors proposée. 3) La confrontation des résultats à d’autres sites (Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf, Saint-Illier-la-Ville), en pondérant la rigidité des pratiques vues à Boxgrove, dans l’espace et surtout le temps, amène à considérer la logique de disparition d’une tradition
This thesis offers a chaînes opératoires study of acheulean handaxes (600 to 280 Ky BP). Based on Boxgrove site (England), it tries to establish a better understanding of cognitive and behavioural processes induced by this technic. For this purpose, it follows a “palethnological” methodological and interpretative program helping to enhance the studies of technical facts up to social inferences. The thesis is divided into three parts :1) The bibliographical analysis confront available datas (archeological, environmental, etc) with the current interpretations. While attesting the richness of previous studies, it calls for a reasonable and well-argumented transgression of both strictly utilitarian or symbolical interpretations. The challenges underpinning an application of the “palethnological approach” to the Lower palaeolithic, the possible solutions and a methodology are precised. 2) The second part offers an application based on numerous occupations at Boxgrove site. Chaine opératoire study reveals an exigent technocultural norm. Its implications on tool use and individuals skill variations are detailed. The opportunity to confront knappers of different skill levels between different behavioural context (kill-site, aggregation context), combined with other evidences (faunal remains, geomorphology), provides an angle to site’s interpretation. Conversely, a socio-economical interpretation of handaxes is proposed. 3) Comparing these results to other sites (Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf, Saint-Illiers-la-Ville), allows to balance the behavioural rigidity seen at Boxgrove, through space and more crucially through time, and to consider the logic of a tradition ending
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Thiam, Djibril. "Approche techno-économique des industries lithiques des grottes de la Terrasse, de Coupe-Gorge, de la Niche, Boule et des Putois, à Montmaurin (Haute- Garonne), France et potentiel d'application sur quelques sites sénégalais." Thesis, Perpignan, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PERP0039.

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L'imposant réseau karstique de Montmaurin situé à l’extrémité occidentale du chaînon des Petites Pyrénées, renfermait plusieurs grottes. Aujourd'hui, seulement huit cavités ont échappé à l'exploitation des carriers. Malgré la dispersion des collections, l’industrie lithique des fouilles de L. Méroc et R. Cammas (1946-1962) dans les grottes de Montmaurin a pu bénéficier d’un inventaire et de l’étude de l’intégralité des niveaux acheuléens et moustériens. L’étude techno-typologique et pétroarchéologique menée lors de ce travail de recherche montrent des spécificités inhérentes aux grottes de Montmaurin. Les caractéristiques de ce que nous proposons de nommer « le complexe de Montmaurin » dégage une spécificité dans les contreforts pyrénéens. Ce « complexe » possède une certaine unité typologique et technologique. Le cortège lithologique est composé de galets de quartzite de lydienne de quartz etc. qui proviennent des affluents de la Garonne et de silex pré-pyrénéen. Les territoires d’acquisition des ressources minérales sont plus ou moins vastes, d'une centaine de mètres à environ 80 kilomètres. L'application de la méthode d'étude des grottes de Montmaurin sur des sites sénégalais a donné des résultats significatifs : approvisionnement local en matière première avec une utilisation de galets ; traitement différentiel de la matière, changement dans le choix, orienté vers les roches siliceuses ; abandon du macro-outillage et diversification des matières, pour les étendre sur l'ensemble des sites Acheuléens du Sénégal et plus largement en Afrique de l'Ouest, afin d'établir une nouvelle séquence de référence en Afrique occidentale de l’Early Stone Age, jusqu'au Later Stone Age
The huge karstic network of Montmaurin is located at the western end of the chain of the Petites Pyrenées, and contained several caves. There are only eight caves that have escaped the exploitation of quarrymen. Despite the dispersion of the collections, the lithic industry of the L. Meroc and R. Cammas' excavations in the Montmaurin caves benefited from an inventory and the study of the Acheulean and Mousterian collections.The techno-typological and petro-archaeological study conducted during this research shows the specificities inherent to the Montmaurin caves. The characteristics of what we propose to call "the Montmaurin complex" have a specificity in the Pyrenean foothills. This "complex" has a typological and technological unity. The lithological procession is composed of pebbles quartzite lydian quartz. that come from the tributaries of the Garonne and pre-Pyrenean flint. The acquisition territories of mineral resources are more or less vast, from a hundred meters to about 80 kilometers. We applied this method to Senegalese sites yielded significant results: local supply of raw material with a use of pebbles, a differential of the raw material, change in the choice, oriented towards siliceous rocks, abandonment of macro-tools and diversification. These results allow us to propose the application to Acheulean sites in Senegal and widely in West Africa, for establishing a new reference sequence in West Africa from Early Stone Age to Later Stone Age
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The Acheulean of the Yiron Plateau, Israel. Oxford, England: B.A.R., 1986.

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Gallotti, Rosalia, and Margherita Mussi, eds. The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa and Beyond. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75985-2.

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Ohel, Milla Y. Lithic analysis of Acheulean assemblages from the Avivim sites, Israel. Oxford, England: B.A.R., 1990.

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A million years of hominin sociality and cognition: Acheulean bifaces in the Hunsgi-Baichbal Valley, India. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2013.

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Goren-Inbar, N. The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Isarael. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2002.

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Acheulian culture in peninsular India: An ecological perspective. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2001.

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Acheulian large flake industries: Technology, chronology, and significance. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007.

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L' Acheuléen récent évolué de Syrie. Oxford, England: B.A.R., 1985.

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Goren-Inbar, Naama, Nira Alperson-Afil, Gonen Sharon, and Gadi Herzlinger. The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov Volume IV. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74051-5.

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Alperson-Afil, Nira, and Naama Goren-Inbar. The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov Volume II. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3765-7.

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Kusimba, Sibel Barut, and Fred H. Smith. "Acheulean." In Encyclopedia of Prehistory Volume 1: Africa, 1–22. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1193-9_1.

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Primavera, Nicholas. "Acheulean." In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1–2. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_330-1.

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Kuman, Kathleen. "Acheulean Industrial Complex." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 1–12. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_653-2.

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Kuman, Kathleen. "Acheulean Industrial Complex." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 7–18. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_653.

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Kuman, Kathleen. "Acheulean Industrial Complex." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 8–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_653.

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Shipton, Ceri. "The Unity of Acheulean Culture." In Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, 13–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46126-3_2.

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Shipton, Ceri, Mark Nielsen, and Fabio Di Vincenzo. "The Acheulean Origins of Normativity." In Synthese Library, 197–212. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61052-4_11.

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Břicháček, Pavel, and Petr Šída. "Upper Acheulean occupation of Western Bohemia." In Forgotten times and spaces: New perspectives in paleoanthropological, paleoetnological and archeological studies., 33–52. Brno: Masaryk university, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.m210-7781-2015-4.

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Shipton, Ceri, and Michael D. Petraglia. "Inter-continental Variation in Acheulean Bifaces." In Asian Paleoanthropology, 49–55. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9094-2_5.

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Dennell, Robin W. "The Acheulean Assemblages of Asia: A Review." In Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, 195–214. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75985-2_10.

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Conference papers on the topic "The Acheulean"

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Stancampiano, L. M. "Evidence of Human Controlled Fires at Acheulean Site of Valdocarros Ii (Spain, Mis 8/7): Application of Organic Geochemistry." In 30th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2021). European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202134051.

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Stinchcomb, Gary E., Naomi E. Levin, Daniel J. Peppe, Lyndsay DiPietro, Michael J. Rogers, and Sileshi Semaw. "A COMPARISON OF PALEOSOLS FROM OLDOWAN AND ACHEULIAN SITES AT GONA, ETHIOPIA." In GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016. Geological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2016am-278719.

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