Big shift in skills of #biface knapping half a million years ago in Britain, showing variation between phases of #Acheulean occupation of Britain

#archaeology

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25005966?via%3Dihub

Deux pièces parmi mes favorites, admirées lors de l'expo "Voyage dans le cristal" au musée de Cluny ✨

Feuille de laurier, paléolithique supérieur, solutréen (19.000-16.500 av. n-è), grotte du Placard, Vilhonneur, Charente

Aphrodite accroupie, Grèce hellénistique ou Rome, Ier siècle av. n-è - IVe siècle, Villa Getty, Los Angeles

#cristal #quartz #Cluny #MuséeDeCluny #biface #paléolithique #préhistoire #antiquité #Aphrodite #mythologie #musée #expo #exposition #GettyVillaMuseum

This beautiful #acheulean #biface crafted by, and gifted to me from John Murray on my visit to Lucy and ASU Institute of Human Origins! What a beautiful and stunning gift! This is #mahagony #obsidian, and has been crafted into the most successful tool ever made by #humans!