Researchers who analyze stone tools and their production debris have made significant
progress in understanding the relationship between stone tools and human organizational …

The appearance of Oldowan sites ca. 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may reflect one of the most
important adaptive shifts in human evolution. Stone artifact manufacture, large mammal …

In the past two decades, the study of craft production has emerged as a major focus of
archaeological research, integrating interests in technology, material culture, daily activities …

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 …

The role of raw material quality in Oldowan technology has not been fully explored. There
are numerous studies suggesting Oldowan hominins preferred certain types of stone for …

This paper addresses variation in lithic raw material economy within the early Upper
Paleolithic at Üçağızlı cave (south-central Turkey). The stratigraphic sequence documents …

Potential variables that underlie variation in flake size, and in some instances shape, are
investigated in a newly designed experiment. This new design, which utilizes glass cores …

Cortex is often used as an indicator of core reduction and transport, but current measures to
evaluate the observed amount of cortex in a lithic assemblage with what might be expected …

Archaeologists today, as in the past, continue to divide their stone artifact assemblages into
categories and to give privilege to certain of these categories over others. Retouched tools …

Behavioural issues are a main focus of current Palaeolithic research, especially where the
archaeological record of archaic hominids is concerned. Often these issues are approached …