Olduvai culture - Olduvai culture

Japanese: オルドバイ文化 - オルドバイぶんか

The world's oldest Paleolithic culture is located in northern Tanzania in East Africa, and is typified by the Olduvai site surveyed by Leakey and others. It was carried out by Australopithecus, and the culture began in East Africa and spread throughout Africa except Central Africa, and to Western Asia. The main stone tools were choppers, which were made by chipping one end of round or angular gravel to create a blade and used to chop or crush things, but there were also several other types of stone tools, including scrapers for cutting meat and scraping things, and their shapes had already differentiated according to their use.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

東アフリカのタンザニア北部にあり，リーキーらが調査したオルドバイOlduvai遺跡を標式とする世界最古の旧石器文化。その担い手はアウストラロピテクスで，この文化は東アフリカに始まり，中央アフリカを除くアフリカ全土および西アジアにひろがる。主体となる石器は円礫もしくは角礫の一端を打ち欠いて刃をつけ，ものをたたき切ったりつぶしたりするのに用いたチョッパーであるが，その他，肉を切ったりものを削ったりするスクレーパーをはじめ，数種類の石器があり，すでに用途によって形態が分化していた。

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