An integrated study discloses chopping tools use from Late Acheulean Revadim (Israel).

ABSTRACT: Chopping tools/choppers provide one of the earliest and most persistent examples of stone tools produced and used by early humans. These artifacts appeared for the first time ~2.5 million years ago in Africa and are characteristic of the Oldowan and Acheulean cultural complexes throughout the Old World. Chopping tools were manufactured and used by early humans for more than two million years regardless of differences in geography, climate, resource availability, or major transformations in human cultural and biological evolution. Despite their widespread distribution through time and space in Africa and Eurasia, little attention has been paid to the function of these items, while scholars still debate whether they are tools or cores. In this paper, we wish to draw attention to these promin

SUBMITTER: Venditti F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7815122 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature