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Direct percussion method
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A technique of stone tool manufacture performed by striking the raw material with a hammerstone or by striking raw material against a stone anvil to remove flakes.
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Homo habilis
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Earliest representative of the genus Homo; lived between 2.4 and 1.6 million years ago. Characterized by expansion and reorganization of the brain, compared to Australopithecus.
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Lower Paleolithic
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The first part of the Old Stone Age; its beginning is marked by the appearance 2.6 million years ago of Oldowan tools.
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Oldowan tool tradition
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The earliest identifiable stone tools.
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Tradition
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In archaeology, a distinctive tool kit or technology that lasts a long time at one or more localities.
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