Acknowledgments ................................................. v
List of Contributors .......................................... vii
1 Introduction: Current Issues in Oldowan Research ............. 1
David R. Braun and Erella Hovers
2 Remarks on the Current Theoretical and Methodological
Approaches to the Study of Early Technological Strategies
in Eastern Africa ........................................... 15
Ignacio de la Torre and Rafael Mora
3 From Homogeneity to Multiplicity: A New Approach to the
Study of Archaic Stone Tools ................................ 25
Eudald Carbonell, Robert Sala, Deborah Barsky, and
Vincenzo Celiberti
4 An Overview of Some African and Eurasian Oldowan Sites:
Evaluation of Hominin Cognitive Levels, Technological
Advancement and Adaptive Skills ............................. 39
Deborah Barsky
5 Early Homo Occupation Near the Gate of Tears: Examining
the Paleoanthropological Records of Djibouti and Yemen ...... 49
Parth R. Chauhan
6 Homo Floresiensis and The African Oldowan ................... 61
Mark W. Moore and Adam R. Brumm
7 Methodological Issues in the Study of Oldowan Raw Material
Selectivity: Insights from A.L. 894 (Hadar, Ethiopia) ....... 71
Talia Goldman-Neuman and Erella Hovers
8 Variability in Raw Material Selectivity at the Late
Pliocene Sites of Lokalalei, West Turkana, Kenya ............ 85
Sonia Harmand
9 Oldowan Technology and Raw Material Variability at Kanjera
South ....................................................... 99
David R. Braun, Thomas W. Plummer, Peter W. Ditchfield,
Laura C. Bishop, and Joseph V. Ferraro
10 Obsidian Exploitation and Utilization During the Oldowan
at Melka Kunture (Ethiopia) ................................ 111
Marcello Piperno, Carmine Collina, Rosalia Galloti,
Jean-Paul Raynal, Guy Kieffer, François-Xavier le
Bourdonnec, Gerard Poupeau, and Denis Geraads
11 Are all Oldowan Sites Palimpsests? If so, What Can They
Tell us About Hominin Carnivory? .......................... 129
Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo
12 The Environmental Context of Oldowan Hominin Activities
at Kanjera South, Kenya ................................... 149
Thomas W. Plummer, Laura C. Bishop, Peter W. Ditchfield,
Joseph V. Ferraro, John D. Kingston, Fritz Hertel, and
David R. Braun
Index ........................................................ 161
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