Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Among bifacial technologies and tools produced by them we can distinguish: a) Acheulian technology producing various types of symmetrical handaxes; b) Micoquian technology aiming at the production of asymmetrical Keilmesser; c) the technology of leaf-points production.This division represents -to some extent -cultural traditions but the specific technologies are not a simple result of the évolution buisonnante of the Lower Palaeolithic Acheulian, but could have had polycentric origins in the effect of the interaction between Mode 2 and Mode 3.This is the case of the relation between the Lower Palaeolithic Acheulian and Middle Palaeolithic units with bifacial technology (the Mousterian with Acheulian tradition and the Micoquian).While the Mousterian with Acheulian tradition is limited to western and southwestern Europe (Belgium, England, France, Spain), i.e. the territories of distribution of the Acheulian (Bordes 1950; White, Pettitt 1995), the range of the
Source: Litikum
Author: Janusz K. Kozłowski
Institution: Jagiellonian University
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3194818656