摘要
人类何时具备主动狩猎能力,何时开始制作标准化工具,又是何时产生了抽象概念、对称观念以及对美的追求,这些问题都可以在旧石器时代的阿舍利技术中找到答案。
The Acheulean technology of Paleolithic Age can tell us when our ancestors mastered the skill of hunting, when they began to make standardized tools, and when the earliest abstract thinking, the concepts of symmetry and aesthetics appeared in their minds.
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