New archaeological and geological research at SHK main site (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

Quaternary International

Volumn 322-323, Issue , 2014, Pages 107-128

  Diez Martín, Fernando ^a   Sánchez Yustos, Policarpo ^a   Uribelarrea, David ^b   Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel ^b   Fraile Márquez, Cristina ^a   Obregón, Rosa Ana ^c   Díaz Muñoz, Isabel ^a   Mabulla, Audax ^d   Baquedano, Enrique ^e   Pérez González, Alfredo ^c   Bunn, Henry T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^e Museo Arqueologico Regional   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893867932     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.11.004     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Bailey G.N. Time perspectives, palimpsests and the archaeology of time. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 2007, 26:198-223.
2. Bertran P., Lenoble A., Todisco D., Desrosiers P., Sørensen M. Particle size distribution of lithic assemblages and taphonomy of Palaeolithic sites. Journal of Archaeological Science 2012, 39:3148-3166.
3. Brown C.T. The fractal dimensions of lithic reduction. Journal of Archaeological Science 2001, 28:619-631.
4. Canals A., Vallverdú J., Carbonell E. New archaeo-stratigraphic data for the TD6 level in relation to Homo antecessor (Lower Pleistocene) at the site of Atapuerca, North-Central Spain. Geoarchaeology 2003, 18:481-504.
5. Chavaillon J.C., Hours N., Piperno M. From the Oldowan to the Middle Stone Age at Mela-Kunturé (Ethiopia). Understanding cultural changes. Quaternaria 1979, 21:87-113.
6. Delagnes A., Lenoble A., Harmand S., Brugal J.-P., Prat S., Tiercelin J.-J., Roche H. Interpreting pachyderm single carcass sites in the African Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene record: a multidisciplinary approach to the site of Nadung'a 4 (Kenya). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 2006, 25:448-465.
7. Diez-Martín F. El Paleolítico inferior en el Valle Medio del Duero. Los yacimientos de Tovilla y Las Cotarras (Tudela de Duero y Traspinedo, Valladolid) 1996, Unpublished M. A. dissertation, University of Valladolid, Valladolid.
8. Domínguez-Rodrigo M., Pickering T.R., Diez-Martín F., Mabulla A., Musiba C., Trancho G., Baquedano E., Bunn H.T., Barboni D., Santonja M., Uribelarrea D., Ashley G.M., Martínez-Ávila M., Barba R., Gidna A., Yravedra J., Arriaza C. Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-million-year-old hominin, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. PLoS ONE 2012, 7(10):e46414.
9. Domínguez-Rodrigo M., Bunn H.T., Pickering T.R., Musiba C., Mabulla A., Baquedano E., Ashley G., Diez-Martin F., Santonja M., Uribelarrea D., Barba R., Yravedra J., Gidna A. Autochthony and artifact and fossil bone orientation patterns in Olduvai Bed I paleoanthropological assemblages: some examples from FLK North. Journal of Archaeological Science 2012, 39:2116-2127.
10. Domínguez-Rodrigo M., Diez-Martín F., Yravedra J., Barba R., Bunn H., Mabulla A., Baquedano E., Uribelarrea D., Sánchez P., Eren M. A study of the SHK Main Site faunal assemblage, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: implications for Bed II taphonomy, paleoecology, and hominin utilization of mega-fauna. Quaternary International 2014, 322-323:153-166.
11. Domínguez-Rodrigo M., Pickering T.R., Baquedano E., Mabulla A., Mark D.F., Musiba, Bunn H.T., Uribelarrea D., Smith V., Diez-Martin F., Pérez-González A., Sánchez P., Santonja M., Barboni D., Gidna A., Ashley G., Yravedra J., Heaton J.L., Arriaza M.C. First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. PlosOne 2013, (in press).
12. Egeland C.P., Domínguez-Rodrigo M. Taphonomic perspectives on hominin site use and foraging strategies during the Bed II times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution 2008, 55:1031-1052.
13. Ferring C.R. Intrasite spatial patterning: its role in settlement-subsistence systems analysis. Intrasite Spatial Analysis in Archaeology 1984, 116-126. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. J. Hietala (Ed.).
14. Gallotti R., Piperno M. Spatial analysis of the lithic material from level D. Studies on the Early Palaeolithic sites of Melka Kunture, Ethiopia 2004, 599-635. Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Florence. J. Chavaillon, M. Piperno (Eds.).
15. Gallotti R., Mohib A., El Graoui M., Sbihi-Alaoui F.Z., Raynal J.-P. GIS and intra-site spatial analyses: an integrated approach for recording and analyzing the fossil deposit at Casablanca prehistoric sites (Morocco). Journal of Geographic Information System 2011, 3:373-381.
16. Goldberg P., Macphail R.I. Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology 2006, Blackwell, Malden.
17. Harding P., Gibbard P.L., Lewin J., Macklin M.G., Moss E.H. The transport and abrasion of flint handaxes in a gravel-bed river. The Human Uses of Flint and Chert 1987, l15-126. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. G. Sieveking, M.H. Newcomer (Eds.).
18. Hay R.L. Geology of the Olduvai Gorge 1976, University of California Press, Berkeley.
19. Hosfield R.T. The Palaeolithic of the Hampshire Basin: A Regional Model of Hominid Behaviour during the Middle Pleistocene. British Archaeological Reports British Series 1999, 286. (Oxford).
20. Hosfield R.T., Chambers J.C., Macklin M.G., Brewer P., Sear D. Interpreting secondary context "sites". A role for experimental archaeology. Lithics 2000, 21:29-35.
21. Isaac G.L. Towards the interpretation of occupation debris: some experiments and observations. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 1967, 37:31-57.
22. Leakey L.S.B. By the Evidence. MEmoirs, 1932-1951 1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York.
23. Leakey M.D. Olduvai Gorge. Excavations in Bed I and II 1971, vol. 3:1960-1963. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
24. Lenoble A. Ruissellement et formation des sites préhistoriques: référentiel actualiste et exemples d'application au fossile. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1353 2005, (Oxford).
25. Mallinsky-Buller A., Hovers E., Marder O. Making time: 'Living floors', 'palimpsests' and site formation processes. A perspective from the open-air Lower Paleolithic site of Revadim Quarry, Israel. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 2011, 30:89-101.
26. Meignen L. L'analyse de l'organisation spatiale dans les sites du Paléolithique Moyen: structures évidentes, structures latentes. Préhistoire Anthropologie Méditerranéennes 1994, 3:7-23.
27. Miall A.D. The Geology of Fluvial Deposits: Sedimentary Facies, Basin Analysis, and Petroleum Geology 2006, Springer, Berlin.
28. Miall A.D., Smith N.D. Rivers and Their Deposits 1989, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mieralogists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, slide set 4.
29. Moncel M.H. Le site de Payre (Comune de Rompon, Ardèche). Une occupation humaine du Paléolithique moyen ancien. Quaternaire 1993, 4:149-157.
30. Nanson G.C., Croke J.C. A genetic classification of floodplains. Geomorphology 1992, 4:459-486.
31. Obregón R.A. Estratigrafía cultural en el nivel TD10-1 de Gran Dolina, Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos). Secuencia arqueoestratigráfica de los asentamientos contenidos en sedimento homogéneo 2012, PhD dissertation, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos.
32. Petraglia M.D., Nash D.T. The impact of fluvial processes on experimental sites. BAR, International Series 1987, (Oxford). D.T. Nash, M.D. Petraglia (Eds.).
33. Petraglia M., Potts R. Water flow and the formation of Early Pleistocene artifact sites in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1994, 13:228-254.
34. Sánchez-Yustos P., Diez-Martín F., Díaz Muñoz M.I., Domínguez-Rodrigo M., Uribelarrea D., Fraile Márquez C., Pérez-González A., Mabulla A., Baquedano E. Percussive and knapping competences in the early Acheulean: the case of SHK main site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Quaternary International 2014, 322-323:107-128.
35. Sañudo P., Fernández-Peris J. Análisis espacial del nivel IV de la Cova del Bolomor (La Valldigna, Valencia). Saguntum 2007, 39:9-26.
36. Schick K.D. Stone Age Sites in the Making. EXperiments in the Formation and Transformation of Archaeological Occurrences. BAR International Series 1986, vol. 319. (Oxford).
37. Schick K.D. Modelling the formation of Early Stone Age artifact concentrations. Journal of Human Evolution 1987, 16:789-807.
38. Shackley M.L. Stream abrasion of flint implements. Nature 1974, 248:501-502.
39. Torre, de la I., Mora R. Unmodified lithic material at Olduvai Bed I: manuports or ecofacts?. Journal of Archaeological Science 2005, 32:273-285.
40. Torre, de la I., Mora R. The transition to the acheulean in east Africa: an assessment of paradigms and evidence from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). Journal of Archaelogical Method and Theory 2013, 10.1007/s10816-013-9176-5.
41. Torre, de la I., Mora R., Martínez-Moreno J. The early Acheulean in Peninj (Lake Natron, Tanzania). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 2008, 27:244-268.
42. Toth N. The Stone Technologies of Early Hominids at Koobi Fora, Kenya. AN Experimental Approach 1982, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
43. Vaquero M., Chacón M.G., García-Antón M.D., Gómez de Soler B., Martínez K., Cuartero F. Time and space in the formation of lithic assemblages: the example of Abric Romani level J. Quaternary International 2012, 247:162-181.
44. Villa P. Terra Amata and the Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Southern France. University of California Publications in Anthropology 1983, vol. 3. (Berkeley).
45. Williams G.J. Rattle, a data mining GUI for R. The R Journal 2009, 1-2:45-55.