The Unknown Oldowan: ~1.7-Million-Year-Old Standardized Obsidian Small Tools from Garba IV, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The Oldowan Industrial Complex has long been thought to have been static, with limited internal variability, embracing techno-complexes essentially focused on small-to-medium flake production.
Rosalia Gallotti, Margherita Mussi
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The limestone spheroids of ‘Ubeidiya: intentional imposition of symmetric geometry by early hominins? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Spheroids are one of the least understood lithic items yet are one of the most enduring, spanning from the Oldowan to the Middle Palaeolithic. Why and how they were made remains highly debated. We seek to address whether spheroids represent unintentional
Antoine Muller +6 more
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Regional extinction(s) but continental persistence in European Acheulean culture [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: ExtinctionTraces of early hominin cultural dynamics are revealed through the spatial and temporal character of the archaeological record. In the European Lower Palaeolithic, biface occurrences provide insights into episodes of cultural loss, persistence and ...
Alastair Key
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The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 - an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Although essential for reconstructing hominin behaviour during the Early Palaeolithic, only a handful of Acheulean sites have been dated in the Eastern Sahara region.
Mirosław Masojć +15 more
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The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The Arabian Peninsula is a critical geographic landmass situated between Africa and the rest of Eurasia. Climatic shifts across the Pleistocene periodically produced wetter conditions in Arabia, dramatically altering the spatial distribution of hominins ...
Eleanor M. L. Scerri +10 more
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Constraining the chronology and ecology of Late Acheulean and Middle Palaeolithic occupations at the margins of the monsoon [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 South Asia hosts the world’s youngest Acheulean sites, with dated records typically restricted to sub-humid landscapes. The Thar Desert marks a major adaptive boundary between monsoonal Asia to the east and the Saharo-Arabian desert belt to the west ...
James Blinkhorn +4 more
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The measurement, evolution, and neural representation of action grammars of human behavior [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Human behaviors from toolmaking to language are thought to rely on a uniquely evolved capacity for hierarchical action sequencing. Testing this idea will require objective, generalizable methods for measuring the structural complexity of real-world ...
Dietrich Stout +4 more
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First high resolution chronostratigraphy for the early North African Acheulean at Casablanca (Morocco) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The onset of the Acheulean, marked by the emergence of large cutting tools (LCTs), is considered a major technological advance in the Early Stone Age and a key turning point in human evolution.
Rosalia Gallotti +16 more
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The acheulean handaxe : More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune? [PDF]
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 2016 © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. KV is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. MC is supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation ...
Anderson C +38 more
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Organic geochemical evidence of human-controlled fires at Acheulean site of Valdocarros II (Spain, 245 kya) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Among the outstanding questions about the emergence of human-controlled fire is the systematic recurrence between the geochemical remains of fire and its preservation in the archaeological record, as the use of fire is considered a technological landmark,
Lavinia M. Stancampiano +5 more
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