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 …
"Stone tools are the most ubiquitous and oldest variety of archaeological artifacts. Humans have made stone tools for the last 2.6 million years on every continent of the inhabited world. As such, they constitute the most important source of information about both past patterns …
The Upper Pleistocene era encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest research and current scientific debate on the archaeology of this time period in North Africa and the Near E…
What we think we know about stone tools -- Describing stone tools -- Stone cutting tools -- Logistical mobility -- Language and symbolic artifacts -- Dispersal and diaspora -- Residential sedentism
