Η Acheulean / Αχελαία περίοδος είναι μια ιδιαίτερη πολιτισμική / λιθοτεχνική περίοδος της Παλαιότερης Παλαιολιθικής περιόδου.
Πήρε την ονομασία της από τον οικισμό Saint-Acheul της Γαλλίας, όπου το πρώτον εντοπίστηκαν και χαρακτηρίστηκαν αυτά τα τέχνεργα.
Αχελαία εργαλεία βρέθηκαν στην Αφρική, στην Ευρώπη, την Εγγύς Ανατολή και την κεντρική Ασία μέχρι την Καλκούτα της Ινδίας. Συνήθως συναντώνται με λείψανα του Homo erectus.
Η αχελαία τεχνολογία αναπτύχθηκε πριν από περίπου 1.760.000 χρόνια και έληξε περίπου πριν από 150.000 χρόνια.
Το πιο χαρακτηριστικό αχελαίο εργαλείο είναι ο «αμυγδαλόσχημος χειροπέλεκυς με διπλή συμμετρία», κατασκευασμένος από πυριτόλιθο.
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Le Paleolithique Inferieur en Grece et l’apport des nouvelles donnees lecture
issues de la grotte de Petralona -
The Aegean Palaeolithic research agenda - N. Galanidou
- Digging, mapping, profiling, trenching, and sampling: archaeological field strategies for investigating the Acheulean Rodafnidia, Lesbos - N. Galanidou, J. McNabb, P. Tsakanikou, E. Karkazi, N. Soulakellis, C. Vasilakos, E.E. Papadopoulou, G. Iliopoulos
- The Acheulean site of Rodafnidia: geology, stratigraphy and chronology - G. Iliopoulos, J. Alexopoulos, P. Papadopoulou, A. Zelilidis, S. Dilalos, N. Voulgaris, A. Biggin, L.J. Arnold, N. Taffin, N. Galanidou
- Lithic Raw Material Economy and Provenance at the Acheulean site of Rodafnidia, Lesbos - E. Karkazi, A. Magganas, N. Galanidou
- A 3D geometric morphometric shape analysis of the Acheulean Large Cutting - Tools from Lesbos - G. Herzlinger, N. Galanidou
The Acheulean site of Rodafnidia: detailed sedimentological analyses - N. Bourli, G. Iliopoulos, N. Galanidou, A. Zelilidis
Following the water: palaeocurrent directions of the Middle Pleistocene fluvial network of Rodafnidia - N. Bourli, G. Iliopoulos, P. Papadopoulou, N. Galanidou, A. Maravelis, A. Zelilidis
The palaeoenvironment of the Acheulean site of Rodafnidia: the microfossil record - P. Papadopoulou, K. Vassiliadou, M. Kolendrianou, G. Iliopoulos, N. Galanidou
RODAFNIDIA AND BEYOND - PALEOGEOGRAPHY
- The Kamara and Vathy Lagkadi Palaeolithic sites, Lisvori alluvial plain: geology, stratigraphy and finds - N. Galanidou, P. Tsakanikou, G. Iliopoulos, P. Papadopoulou, L.J. Arnold, A. Zelilidis
- Soil resources as indicators for affordances at the Acheulean site of Rodafnidia: a geoedaphic approach - S. Kübler, P. Tsakanikou, G. Iliopoulos, N. Galanidou
- Plio-Quaternary palaeogeographic evolution of central south Lesbos: implications for Palaeolithic Archaeology - S. Sotiropoulou, M. Kalaitzis, D. Sakellariou, E. Skourtsos, H. Kranis, T. Hasiotis, N. Galanidou
- The Villafranchian fauna of Vatera, Lesbos, Greece - Athanassiou, G.A. Lyras, A.A.E. van der Geer
- Reassessing the biogeographical role of the Aegean region during the Early and Middle Pleistocene: an affordance-based modelling approach - P. Tsakanikou
- Site visit to Rodafnidia and the excavation laboratory Afternoon Visit to the volcanic landscapes of the Kalloni Gulf and the Early Pleistocene palaeontological sites of Vatera
AFRICA
- Melka Kunture (Ethiopia) – an overview - M. Mussi, E. Méndez-Quintas, J. Panera, F. Altamura, G. Briatico, L. Di Bianco, R. Bonnefille, E. Brunelli, D. Geraads, G. Mutri, F. Piarulli, S. Rubio Jara, G. Ruta, S. Sánchez-Dehesa Galán, A. Serodio Domínguez, R. T. Melis
- The Casablanca sites complex and the North African Acheulean - J-P. Raynal, R. Gallotti, A. Mohib, L. Magoga, D. Lefèvre
- Emerging Patterns of the African Acheulean: East, South and North: a view from the Equator - J.A.J. Gowlett
ARABIA - LEVANT
- The Acheulean of Arabia - C. Shipton
- Out of Africa Waves – a Dead Sea Rift Valley Perspective - G. Sharon
- Technological variability in the late Lower Paleolithic Levant - R. Shimelmitz
- A late Acheulian tool-kit from the Levant: Functional evidence from the site of Revadim, Israel - R. Barkai, F. Venditti, F. Marinelli, A. Zupanchich, S. Nunziante-Cesaro, C. Lemorini
ANATOLIA
- Acheulean in Turkey - H. Taşkiran, B. Dinçer
- Looking for Acheulean Assemblages of the North Aegean Palaeolithic: new contributions, issues and remarks from the Çanakkale – Balıkesir coastline, Turkey - H. Bulut, G. Karahan
- Traces of the Acheulean culture in Denizli (South Aegean/Western Anatolia) - K. Özçelik, H. Bulut
- From Pleistocene Science to Pleistocene Heritage Special lecture N. Sanz Handaxe Aesthetics - Special lecture T. Wynn
WESTERN
EUROPE
- New excavations at Notarchirico (Italy, 670-695 ka). New data and questions on the onset of the Acheulean in Western Europe - M-H. Moncel
- The Acheulean in the Context of the Lower Palaeolithic in the Iberian Peninsula - E. Méndez-Quintas, M. Santonja
- The contribution of Atapuerca (Burgos) and Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona) to the knowledge of the Iberian Acheulean - Ollé
- The very late Acheulean of Iberia: quarries and social production at the end of the Iberian Lower Palaeolithic - J. Baena, C. Torres, F. Tapias, M. Demuro, A., L. J. Arnold
- The Acheulean of Western Europe: new approaches to an old issue - P. García-Medrano
- The Acheulean biface tradition as a « total social fact »: recent insights from “chaîne opératoire” study on north western european sites, with special references to Boxgrove (West Sussex, UK) - M. Leroyer
INDIA
- Acheulean landscapes and evolutionary trajectories in India: learning from Attirampakkam and beyond - S. Pappu, K. Akhilesh
- The Acheulean of the Indian Subcontinent with a focus on its northern and central regions - P. Chauhan
- Experimental lithic knapping to investigate Acheulean Reduction Strategies, with specific reference to Attirampakkam, India - K. Akhilesh, S. Pappu
EASTERN
ASIA
- A Late Pleistocene bifacial Large Cutting Tools assemblage from the Bubing Basin, South China - W. Wang, Y. Yao, W. Liao, C. J. Bae, K. Westaway
- Variation of bifaces and cultural diversity in Early Palaeolithic in East Asia - K. Bae
- Acheulian Problem and the Late Upper Pleistocene Handaxes in Korea, 40 Years After - S. Yi
- The Aegean Acheulean at the Eurasian crossroads: round table discussion - Coordinators: P. Chauhan, J.A.J. Gowlett, N. Galanidou, A. Ollé, H. Taşkiran
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