ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Middle Paleolithic
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stone artifacts include core tools and sharp-edged flakes by striking one against another (known as percussion flaking) Pebble choppers are the most common of the core tools: unifacial tool: a tool worked or flaked on one side only, bifacial tool: a tool worked or flaked on two sides. Lived around 1. 9mya: first to use fire, 1. 5mya; swartkans cave (south africa, 1. 4mya; kenya , east africa, first to leave africa, adapted to a number of environments (e. g. , europe, southeast asia) by. 1. 8mya: assumed to have made the tools dating from 1. 8mya to 200kya, continued to use oldowan chopper technique but also developed a more sophisticated tool technique called acheulian. The acheulian tool tradition: named after the site st. acheul, france where first examples were found, oldest tools dated back about 1. 5mya (lasted until 60,000bp, recovered from east africa on the peninj river of tanzania.
