#acheulian — Public Fediverse posts

780,000-year-old charcoal from Gesher Benot Ya’aqov reveals that early hominins may have chosen their campsites partly for firewood access. Even the wood they burned tells us how they read their landscape. #Paleoanthropology #Acheulian #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-wood-they-burned-firewood-driftwood

New study finds that 200,000 years ago, as elephants and other megaherbivores vanished from the Levant, so did the handaxes and heavy stone tools used to process them. Prey size may have driven tool size all along. #Paleoanthropology #Acheulian #Paleolithic #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-giants-left-the-handaxes