The appearance of Oldowan sites ca. 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may reflect one of the most
important adaptive shifts in human evolution. Stone artifact manufacture, large mammal …

This paper focuses on the empirical evidence for the cognitive abilities of early hominins of
the Oldowan Industrial Complex (c.≥ 2.6 to 1.4 Mya) on the African continent. It profiles …

Newly recorded archaeological sites at Gona (Afar, Ethiopia) preserve both stone tools and
faunal remains. These sites have also yielded the largest sample of cutmarked bones known …

The appearance of Homo erectus shortly after 2.0 Ma is widely considered a turning point in
human dietary evolution, with increased consumption of animal tissues driving the evolution …

Plio-Pleistocene sites are a rare occurrence in same sites. This combination of factors is the
archaeological record. When they are unique in East African Plio-Pleistocene uncovered …

Archaeological data are frequently cited in support of the idea that big game hunting drove
the evolution of early Homo, mainly through its role in offspring provisioning. This argument …

This review summarizes the paleoecology of the Early and Middle Pleistocene of
southwestern Asia, based on both flora and fauna, retrieved from a series of 'windows' …

There is a growing consensus in early hominin studies that savannas did not play a
significant role in the emergence of human evolutionary processes. Early hominins have …

Before the early 1980s, the prevailing orthodoxy in paleoanthropology considered Early
Stone Age archeological sites in East Africa to represent a primitive form of hominid …

The Oldowan technology has traditionally been assumed to reflect technical simplicity and
limited planning by Plio-Pleistocene hominids. The analysis of the Oldowan technology from …