Where were they found? The earliest tools of this type come from the region west of Lake Turkana in...

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Prehistoric Artifacts By

Jonathan Golding Myp1

Where were they found?The earliest tools of this type come from the

region west of Lake Turkana in Kenya. Other tools were found in Eurasia, Asia and Europe.

Archeulean ToolsArcheulean tools are stone tools used by the pre-modern (pre-Homo sapiens) human cultures. The Radiometric dating shows this particular stone tool industry lasted from around 1.65 million years ago to about 100,000 years ago.

Flint hand ax from St. Acheul, France.

What do they tell us about the people of that time?These tools tells us that the people that used these tools were quite sophisticated. They were able to use the tools for multi-purposes. For instance they were able to hunt with these tools, slice hides for clothing, butcher carcasses, dig roots and chop wood.

What can Prehistoric artifacts and Cave Paintings tell us about early man.

This one the beautiful cave painting in cave las caux.

This is a person who is being attacked by a

bison.

This cave painting was from france in cave las

caux

Here is another one of the beautiful cave paintings in cave las caux.

This is one the animals they

hunted.

I think this an ox.This cave painting

is in cave las caux in France

This was discovered in

the

Sources of Informationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Fran

cehttp://

www.macroevolution.net/acheulean.html (information on Acheulean tools)

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