Abbevillian is the term given by Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words , (Mesopotamia), , which examines civilisations that left behind written records and can be adopted to cover the study of societies with very limited written records. One example of a protohistoric site is Fort Ross on the northern California coast, which... archaeologists to the earliest Ancient stone tools A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made of stone. Although stone-tool-dependant cultures exist even today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric societies that no longer exist. The study of stone tools is often called lithic analysis by archaeologists. Stone... stone tool An archaeological industry is the name given to a consistent range of assemblages connected with a single product, such as the Langdale axe industry. Where the assemblages contain evidence of a variety of items and behaviours, the more correct term is archaeological culture. Categories: Stub | Archaeology ... industries of Europe and Africa.

The In archaeology a type site (also known as a type-site or typesite) is a site that is considered the model of a particular archaeological culture. For example, the type site of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A culture is Jericho, in the West Bank. A type site contains artefacts, in... type site is a river terrace of the Categories: France geography stubs | French rivers ... River Somme near the French town of Abbeville is a city in the Picardie of the Somme The following text, from a turn of the century encyclopedia should be updated, wikified and incorporated into the above article: It lies in a pleasant and fertile valley, and is built partly on an island and partly on both sides... Abbeville where A hand axe is a bifacial Paleolithic core tool. This kind of axe is typical of the lower (Acheulean) and the middle Palaeolithic (Mousterian) and is the longest used tool of human history. Hand axe from Boxgrove, England, tip re-sharpened by transverse blow Distribution Handaxes are only found in... handaxes were first discovered in the nineteenth century.

Abbevillian tools are crudely chipped bifacial A hand axe is a bifacial Paleolithic core tool. This kind of axe is typical of the lower (Acheulean) and the middle Palaeolithic (Mousterian) and is the longest used tool of human history. Hand axe from Boxgrove, England, tip re-sharpened by transverse blow Distribution Handaxes are only found in... handaxes made during the Mindel Glaciation of the The Pleistocene epoch is part of the geologic timescale, usually dated as 1.8-1.6 million to 10,000 years before present, with the end date expressed in radiocarbon years. It covers most of the latest period of repeated glaciation, up to and including the Younger Dryas cold the... Pleistocene Ice Age, which covered central Europe between 500,000 and 400,000 years ago.

It was superseded by the Acheulean (also spelled Acheulian) is the name of an industry of stone tools used by prehistoric hominids. It applies to the Paleolithic epoch following the Abbevillian, and it is characterized by the use of pebble, bifacial, and flake tools which included hand axes. It is named after the site, Saint... Acheulean industry.