The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet∼ 1.8 million years ago led to the
exploitation of other mammals for food and resources. As hominins, particularly archaic and …

The shift to increased meat consumption is one of the major adaptive changes in hominin
dietary evolution. Although meat eating by Oldowan hominins is well evidenced at …

The human trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene and its degree of variability serve,
explicitly or tacitly, as the basis of many explanations for human evolution, behavior, and …

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 …

In this article, we present the first results on the large mammal fauna from the new open-air
Lower Palaeolithic locality Marathousa 1 (MAR-1)(Megalopolis Basin, Peloponnesus …

The advent of bone technology in Africa is often associated with behavioral modernity that
began sometime in the Middle Stone Age. Yet, small numbers of bone tools are known from …

In this paper, we present pounded objects from excavations at HWK EE and EF-HR, which
are studied from macro and microscopic perspectives. Analysis of HWK EE revealed one of …

The well-dated Pleistocene sediments at Olduvai Gorge have yielded a rich record of
hominin fossils, stone tools, and vertebrate faunal remains that, taken together, provide …

The lithic assemblages at the Oldowan-Acheulean transition in Bed II of Olduvai Gorge,
Tanzania, represent a wide variety of raw materials reflecting both the diversity of volcanic …

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 …