An edition of The Oldowan (2007)
The Oldowan
Case Studies in the Earliest Stone Age (Stone Age Institute Publication Series)
By Kathy Diane Schick
Publish Date
March 30, 2007
Publisher
The Stone Age Institute Press,Stone Age Institute
Language
eng
Pages
338
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.
subjects: Prehistoric Tools, Stone age, Human evolution, Prehistoric peoples, Antiquities, Analysis
Places: Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania), Africa