Section of a gravel quarry at Saint-Acheul which contained the flint tools found by Boucher de Perthes, 1830. Saint-Acheul is a suburb of Amiens after which the Acheulean archeological culture is named. Acheulean tools were produced during the Lower Paleolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe, and are typically found with Homo erectus remains. Image taken from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier, 1870 (cropped and cleaned). Colorized.

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