acheulean

Meaning of acheulean

adjective
  1. relating to or denoting the main Lower Palaeolithic culture in Europe (preceding the Mousterian), represented by hand-axe industries, and dated to about 1,500,000–150,000 years ago.
    the earliest deposits are the remains of an encampment by Acheulian communities
noun, singular proper noun
  1. the period of the main Lower Palaeolithic culture in Europe, preceding the Mousterian.
    pollen shows that plants favouring a cooler and damper climate were present in the late Acheulian

early 20th century: from French Acheuléen, from St-Acheul near Amiens in northern France, where objects from this culture were found.

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Hyphenation of acheulean

acheulean

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
  • acheulean is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of acheulean

Euchlaena

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