The Oldowan
Subtitle: Case Studies in the Earliest Stone Age (Stone Age Institute Publication Series)
Contributors: Nicholas Toth (Editor); Kathy Schick (Editor)
Publisher: The Stone Age Institute Press; Stone Age Institute
Published: March 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780979227608
Subjects: Prehistoric archaeology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Science / Biological Sciences; Archaeology; Africa; Human evolution; Prehistoric peoples; Stone age
Description: The earliest traces of proto-human technology emerged over 2.5 million years ago on the African continent. Called the Oldowan after the famous site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, these technologies herald a major evolutionary shift in the human lineage. The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age provides a critical look at early archaeological sites and their evidence. This volume also shows how a range of probing, multidisciplinary, experimental investigations -- including experimental tool-making, comparative studies of ape technologies, biomechanical analysis, and PET studies of brain activity -- help us evaluate this tantalizing prehistoric evidence and appreciate its relevance to human evolution.