Age of early acheulian industries from the peninj group, tanzania

ABSTRACT Geophysical data strongly indicate that stone assemblages, which include bifaces and cleavers, from East Africa, are at least a million years old. Since these artefacts seem to be

much older than any of their known counterparts in Europe, the question of the date of man's expansion from the tropics into cool, temperate regions is raised for discussion. Access

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references AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720 Glynn Ll. Isaacs * Department of Geology and

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