The origin of the Acheulean constitutes a key aspect of current research in the archaeology
of human evolution. Olduvai Gorge is one of the main sites in Africa in the study of the …

Spatial analysis studies in Palaeolithic archaeology arise as indispensable research tools
for understanding archaeopalaeontological sites. In general terms, spatial studies have …

Percussive activities are highly relevant in the economy of modern hunter-gatherer societies
and other primates, and are likely to have been equally important during the Palaeolithic …

Abstract Barranco León (Orce, Andalusia, Spain) provides the oldest case of knapping and
percussive activities on an ancient raw material reservoir deposit. This site has already …

The 3D orientation of clasts within a deposit are known to be informative on processes that
formed that deposit. In archaeological sites, a portion of the clasts in the deposit are …

The quartz-grain shape is an important sedimentological attribute typically used to
reconstruct depositional settings and sediment transport conditions and predict the duration …

DS (David's site) is one of the new archaeological sites documented in the same
paleolandscape in which FLK 22 was deposited at about 1.85 Ma in Olduvai Gorge …

A commonly identified problem in open-air sites is the poor preservation of bone surfaces
because of the multiple agents and processes that act on them. In these assemblages …

Over the past twenty years, early hominin behavioral models have increasingly abandoned
social inferences of the behaviors that created the earliest archaeological record. Behavioral …

Abstract Previously, Olduvai Bed I excavations revealed Oldowan assemblages< 1.85 Ma,
mainly in the eastern gorge. New western gorge excavations locate a much older∼ 2.0 Ma …