Acheulean prepared core technologies from the eastern Zimbabwe Escarpment, Maunganidze (Manicaland)

摘要: Abstract Evidence for an Early Stone Age occupation of the Zambezian zone prior to late Acheulean is meager. In this article, we present site from eastern Zimbabwe called Maunganidze between Limpopo and Zambezi, containing a wealth large prepared cores, blanks, cutting tools that illustrate diversity complexity in stone reduction. hominins visited cobble-bed streams outcrops as quarry sites leaving behind hand axes, cleavers, knives. The lithics studied were made on three main raw materials: quartzite, basalt, rhyolite. Simple platform reduction preferential core technology dominate assemblage. Blanks obtained cores. Three techniques blank production documented: side-struck sliced cobbles, opening-flakes. side struck assemblage shows significant preparation upper surfaces standardized approach sub-triangular tabular supports, even highly symmetrical tear-drop blanks. nearest comparative baseline comes South African Victoria West, documented 1300 km southwest. There are similarities differences two sets. represents first locus straddled along transitional ecoregion links southern, central, east Africa. It also time West industry has been outside Africa's temperate zone, tropics.