oldowan is the most common stone tool type from the acheulean industry.
oldowan is the most common stone tool type from the acheulean industry.
the most common stone tool type from the acheulean industry is?
oldowan
from about 1.5 million years ago, human ancestors, who were probably members of the species homo erectus, were attracted to the area as a source of raw material for making early stone age tools. the raw materials they were seeking are still visible today in the form of rocks and cobbles of non-native materials brought from the west and in abundance in channel lag deposits left by the ancient limpopo. "homo erectus" clearly found this raw material provided by the rivers of great importance and used these abundant gravel deposits as quarry sites – there are quite literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of stone tools, and the byproducts of their manufacturing process, which can be seen throughout the area. beautifully crafted hand axes – which are common – are evidence that this early stone tool culture represents the acheulean industry and lasted from around 1.7 million years ago until around 250,000 years ago when it gave way to a slightly more advanced stone tool culture known as the middle stone age. the vast numbers of acheulean aged stone tools in the region are not only testimony of the large numbers of human ancestors that occupied the area, but also the vast amount of time in which this occupation occurred – more than 1.4 million years of continuous occupation.
makuleke
section::::evolution.:mode ii: the acheulean industry.









































eventually, more complex, mode 2 tools began to be developed through the acheulean industry, named after the site of saint-acheul in france. the acheulean was characterised not by the core, but by the biface, the most notable form of which was the hand axe. the acheulean first appears in the archaeological record as early as 1.7 million years ago in the west turkana area of kenya and contemporaneously in southern africa.
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