The Oldowan: Case Studies Into the Earliest Stone AgeKathy 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 | 43 |
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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