The Clactonian flint tool industry develop at…
298125 BCE to 277390 BCE
The Clactonian flint tool industry develop at sites such as Barnfield Pit in Kent during the period of relatively warm climate from around three hundred thousand to two hundred thousand years ago.
The period produces a rich and widespread distribution of sites by Paleolithic standards.
Clactonian tools are made by Homo erectus rather than modern humans.
Uncertainty over the relationship between the Clactonian and Acheulean industries is still unresolved.
Images
A reconstruction of a Homo erectus, exhibit at the Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Herne, Germany (lwl-landesmuseum-herne.de). This is a cropped version of a photograph taken in 2007 at the Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Herne. The uploader did not specify the provenance of the model. The Herne museum at the time was running an exhibition on palaeoanthropology under the title klima und mensch. leben in eXtremen (opened 30 May 2006). klimaundmensch.de[ (author of reconstruction unknown) Homo_erectus.JPG: photographed by User:Lillyundfreya derivative work (crop operation): Rafaelamonteiro80 (talk)
