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Which hominin species made Acheulean tools?

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The Venus of Willendorf, a small Upper Paleolithic limestone figurine with exaggerated female features and textured head, displayed against a black background. — Paleolithic Period The Venus of Willendorf, a Upper Paleolithic limestone figurine originally colored with red ochre, 30,000–25,000 bce, found at Willendorf, Lower Austria; in the Natural History Museum, Vienna.

The Acheulean industry was the first standardized toolmaking tradition produced by Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens.1

These tools, which are most famously characterized by hand axes and cleavers, were developed during the early Paleolithic Period, spanning from approximately 1.7 million to 200,000 years ago.1