Old stones' song: Use-wear experiments and analysis of the Oldowan quartz and quartzite assemblage from Kanjera South (Kenya)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 10-25

  Lemorini, Cristina ^a   Plummer, Thomas W ^b   Braun, David R ^c,d,e   Crittenden, Alyssa N ^f   Ditchfield, Peter W ^g   Bishop, Laura C ^h   Hertel, Fritz ⁱ   Oliver, James S ^h,j   Marlowe, Frank W ^k   Schoeninger, Margaret J ^l   Potts, Richard ^m,n  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS CENTER   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

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Author keywords

Artifact function; Early Pleistocene; Kenya; Oldowan archaeological sites

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ; QUARTZITE; TOOL USE;

KENYA;

ANIMALIA; CAREX; CYPERUS PAPYRUS; MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

HISTORY; HUMAN; KENYA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGY; TOOL USE;

HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; KENYA; QUARTZ; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGY; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84902346791     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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