2. Developed Oldowan A: Beginning in at the base of Middle Bed II (ca. 1.65 mya)“Oldowan
tool forms persist, but there is a marked increase in spheroids and subspheroids and in the …

In this dramatic reconstruction of the daily lives of the earliest tool-making humans, two
leading anthropologists reveal how the first technologies--stone, wood, and bone tools …

Steven A. Rosen's Lithics After the Stone Age is the first in-depth analysis of post-Stone-Age
tools. For Near Eastern archaeologists, he provides the first comprehensive typology and …

The archaeology of language origins - a review Page 1 The archaeology of language origins a
review IAIN DAVIDSON” Language is afeature to distinguish the ‘human’from the ‘animal’ that …

Comparative studies of ground stone artifacts have been limited, due to widely varying
terminology and typological schemes restricted to material from one or two specific sites …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Humans and chimpanzees shared a common ancestor some time before 3.5 million years
ago, and still share a huge proportion of their genetic material. Yet their behaviour, and the …

Stone tools are the least familiar objects that archaeologists recover from their excavations,
and predictably, they struggle to understand them. Eastern Africa alone boasts a 3.4 million …

Abstract The phrase “Developed Oldowan”(DO) was originally coined by M. Leakey to
describe a technologically “advanced Oldowan” artifact tradition, that preceded the …

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the current frameworks employed in use–
wear studies of ground stone tools, and to discuss the objectives and limitations of this …