Ugwuele is an Igbo community in Uturu, Isuikwuato Local Government Area, Abia State in Nigeria which houses a Stone Age site that provides evidence that humans inhabited the region as far back as 250,000 years ago.

[5] The Ugwuele stone workshop site consists of a dolerite ridge with a virtual scree forming its northern end.

[3] Sources claimed that the Ugwuele settlement was populated by the ancestors of the lower Niger and West African peoples and they achieved a distinct Stone Age level civilization based on agriculture.

[7] Ugwuele experienced cultural developments, demonstrating advances in the arts and religion, which featured the worship of a God creator and intermediary spirits.

[6] The Ugwuele hand ax is also particularly notable for archaeologists since it resembled the same tool found in the Acheulean sites, which emerged in France, England, India, and North Africa.