Interdisciplinary approaches to the Oldowan / edited by Erella Hovers and David R. Braun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (71st : 2006 : San Juan, P.R.)

Contributor:

Hovers, Erella.

Braun, David R. (David Royce)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stone age--Africa--Congresses.

Stone age.

Stone age--Eurasia--Congresses.

Prehistoric peoples--Africa--Congresses.

Prehistoric peoples.

Prehistoric peoples--Eurasia--Congresses.

Tools, Prehistoric--Africa--Congresses.

Tools, Prehistoric.

Tools, Prehistoric--Eurasia--Congresses.

Human evolution--Congresses.

Human evolution.

Antiquities.

Africa--Antiquities--Congresses.

Africa.

Eurasia--Antiquities--Congresses.

Eurasia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 163 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction : current issues in Oldowan research / David R. Braun and Erella Hovers

Remarks on the current theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of early technological strategies in eastern Africa / Ignacio de la Torre and Rafael Mora

From homogeneity to multiplicity : a new approach to the study of archaic stone tools / Eudald Carbonell ... [et al.]

An overview of some African and Eurasian Oldowan sites : evaluation of hominin cognitive levels, technological advancement and adaptive skills / Deborah Barsky

Early Homo occupation near the Gate of Tears : examining the paleoanthropological records of Djibouti and Yemen / Parth R. Chauhan

Homo floresiensis and the African Oldowan / Mark W. Moore and Adam R. Brumm

Methodological issues in the study of Oldowan raw material selectivity : insights from A.L. 894 (Hadar, Ethiopia) / Talia Goldman-Neuman and Erella Hovers

Variability in raw material selectivity at the late Pliocene sites of Lokalalei, West Turkana, Kenya / Sonia Harmand

Oldowan technology and raw material variability at Kanjera South / David R. Braun ... [et al.]

Obsidian exploitation and utilization during the Oldowan at Melka Kunture (Ethiopia) / Marcello Piperno ... [et al.]

Are all Oldowan sites palimpsests? : if so, what can they tell us about hominin carnivory? / Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

The environmental context of Oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Kenya / Thomas W. Plummer ... [et al.].

Notes:

"The symposium 'Interdisciplinary approaches to the Oldowan' took place in March 2006 within the framework of the annual meeting of the Society of American Archaeology in San Juan, Puerto Rico"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781402090592

1402090595

OCLC:

248986447