Lithic miniaturization was one of our Pleistocene ancestors' more pervasive stone tool
production strategies and it marks a key difference between human and non‐human tool …

Extant primates, especially chimpanzees, are often used as models for pre-modern hominin
(henceforth: hominin) behaviour, anatomy and cognition. In particular, as hominin behaviour …

Abstract HWK EE (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) is a late Oldowan site dated to∼ 1.7 Ma that
contains a large fossil and lithic assemblage. This paper reports on the technology of the …

We present experimental data examining the energetics and identification of axial bipolar
reduction in contexts of lithic miniaturization on milky quartz. These experiments answer two …

Recognized by archaeologists for over a century, and practiced by hominins in nearly every
archaeological context in which flaked stone is used, bipolar technology involves the …

Abstract The Homa Peninsula, in southwestern Kenya, continues to yield insights into
Oldowan hominin landscape behaviors. The Late Pliocene locality of Nyayanga (∼ 3–2.6 …

MNK Skull is one of the most significant archaeological sites in Olduvai Gorge, particularly
due to the previous discovery of human fossils referred to in the paper where the Homo …

The ability to produce large cutting tools (LCTs) is considered as the technological marker of
the Acheulean and the indicator of a greater technological complexity compared to the …

Xiaochangliang (XCL), located in the Nihewan Basin of North China, is a key archaeological
locality for understanding the behavioural evolution of early humans. XCL dates to ca. 1.36 …

The eastern African Oldowan has been documented in multiple raw material contexts and
physical environments and displays considerable differences in terms of technological …