Landscape distribution of Oldowan stone artifact assemblages across the fault compartments of the eastern Olduvai Lake Basin during early lowermost Bed II times

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 384-394

  Blumenschine, Robert J ^a   Masao, Fidelis T ^b   Stollhofen, Harald ^c   Stanistreet, Ian G ^d   Bamford, Marion K ^e   Albert, Rosa M ^f   Njau, Jackson K ^g,h   Prassack, Kari A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h National Natural History Museum   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Hominin land use; Landscape paleoanthropology; Olduvai Gorge

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; FAULT; FOOTWALL; HOMINID; LANDSCAPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARUSHA [TANZANIA]; OLDUVAI GORGE; TANZANIA;

EID: 84864551602     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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