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Acheulean

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Acheulean [ə′shül·ē·ən]
(archeology)
Lower Paleolithic archeological time, characterized by biface tools having cutting edges all around.


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Ryan Gibbon of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and his colleagues dated hand axes and related stone implements, collectively known as Acheulean artifacts, using measures of the relative decay of radioactive forms of aluminum and beryllium in quartz from the soil and gravel bearing the artifacts.
Gibbon and his colleagues dated hand axes and related stone implements, collectively known as Acheulean artifacts, using measures of the relative decay of radioactive forms of aluminium and beryllium in quartz grains from the soil and gravel bearing the artifacts.
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