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The oldest hand-axes in Europe

机译:欧洲最古老的手斧

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Stone tools are durable reminders of the activities, skills and customs of early humans, and have distinctive morphologies that reflect the development of technological skills during the Pleistocene epoch. In Africa, large cutting tools (hand-axes and bifacial chopping tools) became part of Palaeolithic technology during the Early Pleistocene (~1.5Myr ago). However, in Europe this change had not been documented until the Middle Pleistocene (<0.5 Myr ago). Here we report dates for two western Mediterranean hand-axe sites that are nearly twice the age of the supposed earliest Acheulian in western Europe. Palaeomagnetic analysis of these two sites in southeastern Spain found reverse polarity magnetozones, showing that hand-axes were already in Europe as early as 0.9 Myr ago. This expanded antiquity for European hand-axe culture supports a wide geographic distribution of Palaeolithic bifacial technology outside of Africa during the Early Pleistocene.
机译:石材工具可以长期提醒人们早期的活动,技能和习俗,并且具有独特的形态,可以反映出更新世时期技术技能的发展。在非洲,大型的切削工具(手斧和双面砍伐工具)在更新世早期(〜1.5年前)成为旧石器时代技术的一部分。但是,在欧洲,直到中更新世(<0.5 Myr之前)才记录此变化。在这里,我们报告了两个西地中海手斧遗址的日期,这些遗址的年龄几乎是假定的西欧最早的阿契留纪时期的两倍。对西班牙东南部这两个站点的古地磁分析发现极性相反的磁区,表明手轴早在0.9 Myr之前就已经在欧洲。欧洲手斧文化的上古扩展支持了早更新世早期非洲以外的旧石器时代双面技术的广泛地理分布。

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    《Nature》 |2009年第7260期|82-85|共4页
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    Gary R. Scott; Luis Gibert;

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    Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California 94709, USA;

    Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California 94709, USA;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《生物学医学文摘》(MEDLINE);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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