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The main chains of activity typically involved in the manufacture of an Acheulean toolkit. Hominins often made bifaces from large flakes struck from ‘giant cores', then finishing them with secondary working; in a largely separate, parallel process, smaller cores—sometimes shaped to be tools—yield flakes, some of them also used as tools. (Online version in colour.)
