
Vol 1 Ep 5 - Lower paleolithic stone tools ( Olduvai Gorge )
History of the World podcast
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The History of Fire and the Asculian Tall Culture
Asculian tall culture appears to be a very successful one, as archaeological evidence points towards this technology not altering a great deal for hundreds of thousands of years. Upon reaching ashol in amion, france, homo erectus would have been shocked by the winter. Unlike the equatorial climate, which maintains a fairly constant temperature all year round, the weather of ashul would have been some fift to 20 degrees centigrade less during the winter months. The amount of daylight during these winter months would have been four hours fewer than the consistently 12 hour days of the equator. It does not seem out of the question that humans would have looked for a safe place to dwell,
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