The Oldowan: Case Studies Into the Earliest Stone Age

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Kathy Diane Schick, Nicholas Patrick Toth
Stone Age Institute, 2006 - 338 pages
The earliest traces of proto-human technology emerged over 2.5 million years ago on the African continent. Called the Oldowan after the famous site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, these technologies herald a major evolutionary shift in the human lineage. The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age provides a critical look at early archaeological sites and their evidence. This volume also shows how a range of probing, multidisciplinary, experimental investigations - including experimental tool-making, comparative studies of ape technologies, biomechanical analysis, and PET studies of brain activity - help us evaluate this tantalizing prehistoric evidence and appreciate its relevance to human evolution.

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The Oldest Stone Artifacts from Gona 2 62 5 Ma Afar Ethiopia
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The North African Early Stone Age and the Sites at Ain Hanech Algeria
77
The Acquisition and Use of Large Mammal Carcasses by Oldowan Hominins
113
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