The Acheulean in Asia?: A Review of Research on Korean Palaeolithic Culture.

Ayres, William S.; Rhee, Song Nai

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“…Similarly, the distribution of the chopper/chopping tool industries of southeast Asia, in which bifaces are rare or absent and knapping techniques relatively simple (Movius 1948;Yi & Clark 1983;Ayers & Rhee 1984), has been related to the distribution of rain-forest. Such forests may have provided raw materials such as hardwoods, vines and bamboo, which took the place of stone and led to a relatively low level of technological development (Hutterer 1977;Watanabe 1985;Pope 1985;.…”

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Technology and Society during the Middle Pleistocene: Hominid Group Size, Social Learning and Industrial Variability

Mithen

1994

CAJ

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A model is developed for the relationship between the tool behaviour and social behaviour ofHomo erectus.This explores the role of social learning as the link between social organization and techniques—the methods used to manufacture stone tools. Predictions are made as to how techniques should vary with increasing group size and these are evaluated through a case study from the Middle Pleistocene of southeast England. The case study suggests that inter-assemblage variability in the Lower Palaeolithic can partly be attributed to different relative intensities of individual and social learning arising from varying hominid group size and social interaction in open and closed (i.e. wooded) environments. As such, the paper seeks to integrate material from three fields—comparative socioecology, primate social learning and Palaeolithic archaeology—to explore the relationship between society and technology.

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Technology and Society during the Middle Pleistocene: Hominid Group Size, Social Learning and Industrial Variability

Mithen

1994

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“…Abbé Breuil replaced the term Chellean by Abbevillian to describe an early phase of the Acheulean (Breuil, 1932, 1939). This term was frequently ‘exported’ and used by prehistorians working in European countries and outside Europe in Africa and Asia, using the term Chellean (Abbevillian) or Clacto‐Abbevillian (Neuville and Ruhlmann, 1941; Breuil, 1943, 1945; Burkitt, 1945; Clark, 1953; Movius, 1954; Clark Howell, 1960; Clark et al ., 1966; Isaac, 1969; Ayres and Rhee, 1984). It has lost all claim to universality, both because the European model (and its terminology) no longer has universal value, and because conclusions can no longer be based on typological considerations alone.…”

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Reassessment of the ‘Abbevillien’ in the perspective of new discoveries from the Lower Palaeolithic and Quaternary sites of Abbeville (Somme, northern France)

Moncel

Antoine

Hurel

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J Quaternary Science

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North-West Europe yields few traces of early human occupation, in particular for the Acheulean. In this context, the Somme Valley in northern France offers a route to Britain during various Pleistocene low sea levels, and has provided numerous evidence of Lower Palaeolithic human occupation through fieldwork initiated during the 19th century. These localities are associated with the original definition in the 1930s by the French prehistorian Abbé Henri Breuil of the 'Abbevillien' (Abbevillian facies), based on lithic pieces including crudely made bifaces recovered in particular in some famous key localities of Abbeville, Carpentier, Léon and Moulin Quignon quarries. The history of the term and its definition subsequently gave rise to debates concerning the chronocultural framework of Palaeolithic assemblages among the scientific community of prehistorians over time, from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, Gabriel de Mortillet, Geoffroy d'Ault du Mesnil, Victor Commont, Henri Breuil and François Bordes. New investigations at these three localities, all associated with the High Terrace of the Somme system, pushed back the age of the expansion of the Acheulean both in northern France and in Western Europe to c. 670-650 000 years. They imply that early hominins were able to settle in North-West Europe during both climatic temperate and cold phases. Our work, including new excavations and associated field observations of the three Abbeville localities involved at the onset of the controversy, allows a re-examination of the Abbevillian and contributes to the discussion of the history of Prehistoric Science and the Earliest 'Acheuleans' in North-West Europe.

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“…Scales are 30 mm. Rhee 1984;Norton and Bae 2009;Norton et al 2006;Yoo 2008). A minority of scholars have argued that on the basis of this evidence, which was first brought to light in the mid-1950s (at Dingcun in China), the Movius Line should be rejected (Yi and Clark 1983).…”

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Biface Distributions And The Movius Line: A Southeast Asian Perspective

Brumm

Moore

2012

Australian Archaeology

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The 'Movius Line' is the putative technological demarcation line mapping the easternmost geographical distribution of Acheulean bifacial tools. It is traditionally argued by proponents of the Movius Line that 'true' Acheulean bifaces, especially handaxes, are only found in abundance in Africa and western Eurasia, whereas in eastern Asia, in front of the 'line', these implements are rare or absent altogether. Here we argue, however, that the Movius Line relies on classifying undated surface bifaces as Acheulean on typological grounds alone, a long-standing and widely accepted practice in Africa and western Eurasia, but one that is not seen as legitimate in eastern Asian contexts. A review of the literature shows that bifaces are relatively common as surface finds in Southeast Asia and on this basis we argue that the Movius Line is in need of reassessment.

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The Acheulean in Asia?: A Review of Research on Korean Palaeolithic Culture.

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Technology and Society during the Middle Pleistocene: Hominid Group Size, Social Learning and Industrial Variability

Technology and Society during the Middle Pleistocene: Hominid Group Size, Social Learning and Industrial Variability

Reassessment of the ‘Abbevillien’ in the perspective of new discoveries from the Lower Palaeolithic and Quaternary sites of Abbeville (Somme, northern France)

Biface Distributions And The Movius Line: A Southeast Asian Perspective

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