About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: Knife, Obsidian, Chalcedony, Flint, Soapstone, Arrow, Lithic flake, Chert, Stone tool, Cryptocrystalline, Lithic reduction, Bulb of applied force, Adze, Lithic core, Tool stone, Eraillure, Hammerstone, Projectile point, Fire-cracked rock, Grinding slab, Striking platform, Knapping, Prismatic blade, Biface, Termination type, Ground stone, Lithic analysis, Acheulean, Oldowan, Hardstone carving, Obsidian use in Mesoamerica, Axe, Howiesons Poort, Anvil, Prepared-core technique, Metate, Mill Creek chert, Clovis point, Hand axe, Cupstone, Stone wrist-guard, Debitage, Mousterian, Flint tool, Micoquien, Petrosphere, Burin, Stillbay, Bolas, Microburin, Molcajete, Uniface, Microblade technology, Folsom point, Tenerian culture, Conchoidal fracture, Celt, Eolith, Lamoka projectile point, Kimberley points, Lithic technology, Kiffian culture, Susquehanna broad projectile point, Le Grand-Pressigny, Levanna projectile point, Spokeshave, Mozarkite, Bare Island projectile point, Jack's Reef pentagonal projectile point, Batan, McWhinney point, Scraper, Eden point, Helwan retouch, Greene projectile point, Chopping tool, Cleaver, Chopper, Bann flake, Racloir, Chopper core, Hertzian cone, Denticulate tool, Cumberland point, Transverse arrowhead, Callais, Tayacian, Cortex, Tranchet flake, Steuben point, Plano point, Sumatralith, Cascade point, Tranchet axe, Flake tool, Lunate. Excerpt: Acheulean (; also Acheulian) is the name given to an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture associated with early humans during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia and Europe. Acheulean tools are typically found with Homo erectus remains. It is thought that they first developed out of the more primitive Oldowan technology some 1.6 million years ago, by Homo habilis. It was the dominant technology for the va...
