#acheulean — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #acheulean, aggregated by home.social.
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New evidence from South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave pushes hominin fire use back to ~1.79 million years ago — and introduces a luminescence method that makes ancient burning detectable in the field. #Paleoanthropology #Acheulean #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/fire-in-the-dark-wonderwerk-cave
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A valley in northern Israel has produced 10 handaxes deliberately shaped around fossils and geodes, unprecedented for a single Acheulean site. What did early humans see in strange stone? #Palaeolithic #Acheulean #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/shaped-around-the-fossil-acheulean
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New dating evidence pushes ‘Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley back to at least 1.9 million years old — roughly the same age as Dmanisi. Were two different hominin groups leaving Africa at the same time? #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Acheulean https://www.anthropology.net/p/ubeidiya-is-at-least-19-million-years
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A 500,000-year-old tool made from elephant bone, found in England, reveals how early humans used rare materials to sharpen Acheulean handaxes with precision. Ingenuity leaves quiet traces. #Archaeology #HumanOrigins #Acheulean #Paleoanthropology
https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-elephant-bone-that-sharpened
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Our DiPA (Dialogues in Pleistocene Archaeology) will continue on Wednesday, May 28th, at 13.30.
Marie Hélène Moncel (CNRS, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris) will give a talk about
"The earliest Acheulean in Western Europe: New data from Moulin Quignon, la Noira (France) and Notarchirico (Italy). The ERC Lateurope project."Zoom registration is possible!
#paleomonrepos #archaeology #palaeolithic #paleolithic #Acheulean #DiPA #LEIZA
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Paléoanthropologie.
Nos lointains ancêtres essayaient-ils de transformer des pierres en sphères parfaites ?
The limestone spheroids of ‘Ubeidiya: intentional imposition of symmetric geometry by early hominins?
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The earliest European #Acheulean: new insights into the large shaped tools from the late Early Pleistocene site of Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona, #Spain)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2023.1188663/full
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Interesting paper that touches on #paleolithic #anthropology and #arthistory, as well as the history of #archaeology
Does this 15th c painting of a Saint who was stoned to death depict an ancient #acheulean handaxe?
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On the Discovery of a Late Acheulean 'Giant' Handaxe from the Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue61/6/index.html #IntArch #palaeolithic #Acheulean #HandAxe
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Fallow #Deer with Two-Pointed #Antlers Lived alongside Neanderthals
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/dama-celiae-11780.htmlThe #FallowDeer Dama celiae sp. nov. with two-pointed antlers from the Middle #Pleistocene of Madrid, a contemporary of humans with #Acheulean technology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-023-01734-3
Cut marks suggest that it was consumed by #Neanderthals and probably was hunted.
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This 1.4 million-year-old hand axe was chipped off a hippo femur - Enlarge (credit: By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7448... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1691207 #homininevolution #paleoarchaeology #ancienthominins #hippopotamus #archaeology #homoerectus #paleolithic #stonetools #acheulean #ethiopia #hominins #science