Later Acheulian Stone Tools / d)achtoolsoakl

Oakley (1998: fig.18): "Acheulian tools. b, twisted ovate, argile rouge on 30 metre terrace, St. Acheul, near Amiens (Somme). c, Ovate hand-axe, South of Wady Sidr, Palestine."

Comment: Example of the twisted ovate, a type that appears in OIS 11, c. 400,000 BP, and continues into OIS 9, c. 300,000 BP. As in European Later Acheulian traditions, the ovate is characteristic of the African and Near Eastern Acheulian traditions c. 500,000 to 100,000 BP.

Illus. © Oakley, K. P. (1961). Man the tool-maker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Figure 18.