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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…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2007The Stone Age Institute Press · 338 pages · 9780979227608
Prehistoric ToolsStone ageHuman evolutionPrehistoric peoplesAntiquitiesAnalysis