| | P314 Lecture notes, Nov 4-6 |
 | | BODO skull, from Middle Awash in Ethiopia in sediments 600,000 years old (new Science article by Clark et al 1994) and associated with mix of Oldowan and Acheulian assemblages (note that this date is contemporary with "classic" Homo erectus from China...!). |
 | | Today: archaic Homo sapiens and the Late Acheulian and Terminal Acheulian in Africa-- transitions to the Middle Stone Age. |
 | | however, some of Acheulian does take advantage of large flakes in a way that heralds technological planning/skills of later periods: the Tachengit technique produced pre-formed cleavers from huge, trimmed cores. |
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