Acheulian Giant‐Core Technology
Acheulian Giant‐Core Technology
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阿舍利巨核技术
作者：
Gonen Sharon
能够从巨型核心上分离出大片（大于 10 厘米）并将其用作生产手斧和切肉刀的毛坯的能力是阿舍利文化与其非洲前身（约 150 万年前发达的奥尔杜瓦文化）的技术标志。阿舍利粉碎机应用了各种根本不同的、创新的和复杂的方法来生产大薄片，这些方法完全适合天然原材料的尺寸和形状。然而，所有这些方法的最终产品在阿舍利技术综合体的地理和时间分布上都惊人地相似：尺寸和形态适合生产手斧和切肉刀的大薄片。
The ability to detach large (larger than 10 cm) flakes from giant cores and use them as blanks for the production of handaxes and cleavers is a technological hallmark distinguishing the Acheulian culture from its African predecessor, the Developed Oldowan, approximately 1.5 million years ago. Acheulian knappers applied a variety of fundamentally different, innovative, and sophisticated methods to large‐flake production that were perfectly suited to the size and shape of the naturally available raw materials. Yet the end products of all these methods were astonishingly similar across the geographical and chronological distribution of the Acheulian techno‐complex: large flakes that were suitable in size and morphology for the production of handaxes and cleavers.