Stone tool experiments and reduction methods at the Acheulean site of Isampur Quarry, India

• Autores: C. B. K. Shipton, Michael Petraglia, K. Paddayya
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 83, Nº 321, 2009, págs. 769-785
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • What better way to understand how to make a handaxe or cleaver than getting into an Acheulean quarry and doing it yourself. The authors experimented at Isampur Quarry in India, finding that handaxes were best produced by reducing a slab to shape, while cleavers were best made by striking large flakes. There was a good correspondence with the ancient implements, and the authors deduced that Acheulean hominins were learning and transmitting standardised manufacturing methods to each other.