Acheulean

English Alternative forms en Acheulian Etymology From en fr acheuléen, from Saint-Acheul (Amiens) Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens where the first tools from this period were found. Pronunciation en /əˈ(t)ʃuːlɪən/ UK en uːliən 4 Adjective - en archaeology Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes. en 1981 w:William Irwin Thompson The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture Rider/Hutchinson & Co. London 95 Assuming that language ability extends back to the hominids, we see a slow process of cultural development over millions of years, and then in the Acheulean period of Homo erectus, about three hundred thousand years ago, we find the first engraved tool. en 2003 w:Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything BCA 2003 402 When early modern humans – the ones who would eventually become us – started to move out of Africa something over a hundred thousand years ago, Acheulean tools were the technology of choice. Translations Italian: it acheuleano Proper noun 1 en archaeology A lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes. Translations Italian: it acheuleano m Related terms en Acheulo-Yabrudian