Practice question · Estimate
For roughly how many years did the Acheulean handaxe design remain essentially unchanged? Set the slider (in millions of years).
Estimate on a scale from 0 Ma (0) to 3 Ma (3).
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- Longer than our species has existed by an order of magnitude.
- Over a million years.
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Why
Roughly 1.2 million years, from about 1.75 Ma to 0.5 Ma. Homo sapiens has existed for about a quarter of that, and in our version of that span we went from flint to satellites.
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