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 …

Stone tool assemblage variability is considered a reliable proxy measure of adaptive
variability. Raw material richness, transport distances, and the character of transported …

Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years
to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago …

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from
Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple …

Lithic raw material differences are widely assumed to be a major determining factor of
differences in stone tool morphology seen across archaeological sites, but the security of …

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 …

Levallois approaches are one of the best known variants of prepared-core technologies, and
are an important hallmark of stone technologies developed around 300,000 years ago in …

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 …

The period between roughly 45,000 and 30,000 years ago witnessed several critical events
in human evolutionary history, among them the appearance and elaboration of Upper …