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That collection was made up of variously sized examples of the pebble tool, or chopper.
Pebble chopper, also called pebble tool, primordial cutting tool, the oldest type of tool made by forerunners of modern humans.
It is variously known as a pebble tool, pebble chopper, chopping tool, or simply as a chopper.
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In this area, very crudely worked pebble tools have been reported from one site in Algeria in direct association with a Lower Pleistocene (Villafranchian) mammalian assemblage.
Also in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, very simple types of pebble tools, roughly chipped to an edge on one side only, occur in deposits of Lower Pleistocene age.
Just as in North and East Africa, the succession begins in the basal Pleistocene with the occurrence of simple pebble tools of Kafuan type.
These quartzite pebble tools and flakes date to about two million years ago, according to paleomagnetic analysis, and represent a pre-hand-ax industry of a type that appears to have persisted for an extensive period thereafter.
At sites dating from the Lower Paleolithic Period (about 2,500,000 to 200,000 years ago), simple pebble tools have been found in association with the remains of what may have been some of the earliest human ancestors.
Chipped-pebble tools dating from perhaps as early as 15,000 years ago suggest that the initial human inhabitants of Taiwan were Paleolithic cultures of the Pleistocene era.
These assemblages have been defined as the "Chang-pin Culture" are are characterized by a lithic industry consisting of chipped pebble and flake tools, as well as the absence of pottery and no evidence of farming.
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