The Oldowan was the term first coined by Louis Leakey to describe the world's earliest stone
industries, named after the famous site of Olduvai (formerly Oldoway) Gorge in Tanzania …

Intentionally produced sharp-edged stone flakes and flaked pieces are our primary evidence
for the emergence of technology in our lineage. This evidence is used to decipher the …

The capacity of Homo sapiens for the intergenerational accumulation of complex
technologies, practices, and beliefs is central to contemporary accounts of human …

We have learned much about tool use in nonhumans since the discovery of Oldowan stone
tools. Despite the ongoing debate over whether tool use in other animals requires cultural …

For many years, intuition and common sense often guided the transference of patterning
ostensibly evident in experimental flintknapping results to interpretations of the …

Early stone tool production, or knapping, techniques are claimed to be the earliest evidence
for cultural transmission in the human lineage. Previous experimental studies have trained …

Inter-site technological variation in the archaeological record is one of the richest potential
sources of information about Plio-Pleistocene hominid behavior and evolution. However …

The overall goal of this paper is to derive a set of generalizations that might characterize
children as tool makers/users in the earliest human societies. These generalizations will be …

Published evidence of Oldowan stone exploitation generally supports the conclusion that
patterns of raw material use were determined by local availability. This is contradicted by the …

Stone tools are a manifestation of the complex cognitive and dexterous skills of our hominin
ancestors. As such, much research has been devoted to understanding the skill …