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Axe Age - Acheulian Tool-making from Quarry to Discard (Hardcover, New)
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Axe Age - Acheulian Tool-making from Quarry to Discard (Hardcover, New)
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"Axe Age" is dedicated to the Acheulian, a unique cultural
phenomenon with the longest duration and the widest distribution in
the history of humanity. The Acheulian lasted over 1 million years
and is well known over three continents (Africa, Europe and Asia).
This stone tool tradition is characterized by its hallmark bifacial
tools, which include handaxes and cleavers. Though this prehistoric
culture has been investigated extensively for over a century,
countless questions have remained unanswered. Many of them are
addressed in this volume. The volume, of interest to both scholars
and students, presents original contributions that expand the scope
of our understanding of this intriguing cultural entity. The
contributions cover a vast geographic terrain and a large array of
issues expressing hominin cognitive abilities and behavioral modes,
such as landscape exploitation, production of bifacial tools and
their classification, regional diversity, transmission of
knowledge, transportation and discard patterns. Of the many
authors, some are eminent scholars of worldwide reputation in
Acheulian research, while others are young scholars reporting on
their original research data. All of them contribute to gaining an
improved understanding of the Acheulians and their culture.
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