Quantifying Oldowan Stone Tool Production at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

ABSTRACT: Recent research suggests that variation exists among and between Oldowan stone tool assemblages. Oldowan variation might represent differential constraints on raw materials used to produce these stone implements. Alternatively, variation among Oldowan assemblages could represent different methods that Oldowan producing hominins utilized to produce these lithic implements. Identifying differential patterns of stone tool production within the Oldowan has implications for assessing how stone tool technology evolved, how traditions of lithic production might have been culturally transmitted, and for defining the timing and scope of these evolutionary events. At present there is no null model to predict what morphological variation in the Oldowan should look like. Without such a model, quantify

SUBMITTER: Reti JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4726611 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature