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Acheulean

//əˈ(t)ʃuːlɪən// adj, name

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes. not-comparable

    "Assuming that language ability extends back to the hominids, we see a slow process of cultural development over millions of years, and then in the Acheulean period of Homo erectus, about three hundred thousand years ago, we find the first engraved tool."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French acheuléen, from Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens where the first tools from this period were found.

Etymology 2

From French acheuléen, from Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens where the first tools from this period were found.

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