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Acheulean industry(encyclopedia)

Acheulean (iou)



Acheulean adjective & noun. Also Acheulian. E20.
[French Acheuleen, from St-Acheul near Amiens, France.]
(The culture or industry) of an early palaeolithic period in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India, preceding the Mousterian, and distinguished in particular by the manufacture of stone hand-axes.