page_title: Acheulean
hierarchical_section_title: Acheulean
caption_attribution_description: carte de répartition des principaux sites à hachereaux au Pléistocène moyen (Acheuléen)&#160;; Vincent Mourre 2003 (les points indiquent les sites connus et leur diamètre est proportionnel au nombre de hachereaux mis au jour, les zones en rouge sont les régions où des hachereaux sont connus) Mourre, V, Implications culturelles de la technologie des hachereaux. Thèse de Doctorat. Université de Paris X - Nanterre, 3 vol. (2003), (pdf), Fig. 48 (p. 115)
context_page_description: Acheulean, from the French acheuléen after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand-axes" associated with Homo erectus and derived species such as Homo heidelbergensis.
  Acheulean tools were produced during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe, and are typically found with Homo erectus remains. It is thought that Acheulean technologies first developed about 1.76 million years ago, derived from the more primitive Oldowan technology associated with Homo habilis.
  The Acheulean includes at least the early part of the Middle Paleolithic. Its end is not well defined, depending on whether Sangoan is included, it may be taken to last until as late as 130,000 years ago. In Europe and Western Asia, early Neanderthals adopted Acheulean technology, transitioning to Mousterian by about 160,000 years ago.
context_section_description: Acheulean (/əˈʃuːliən/; also Acheulian and Mode II), from the French acheuléen after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand-axes" associated with Homo erectus and derived species such as Homo heidelbergensis.
  Acheulean tools were produced during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe, and are typically found with Homo erectus remains. It is thought that Acheulean technologies first developed about 1.76 million years ago, derived from the more primitive Oldowan technology associated with Homo habilis.
  The Acheulean includes at least the early part of the Middle Paleolithic. Its end is not well defined, depending on whether Sangoan (also known as "Epi-Acheulean") is included, it may be taken to last until as late as 130,000 years ago. In Europe and Western Asia, early Neanderthals adopted Acheulean technology, transitioning to Mousterian by about 160,000 years ago.
caption: Map of the distribution of Middle Pleistocene (Acheulean) cleaver finds
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