3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya

Nature

Volumn 521, Issue 7552, 2015, Pages 310-315

  Harmand, Sonia ^a,b,c   Lewis, Jason E ^a,c,d   Feibel, Craig S ^c,d   Lepre, Christopher J ^c,d,e   Prat, Sandrine ^b,c   Lenoble, Arnaud ^c,f   Boës, Xavier ^b,c   Quinn, Rhonda L ^c,d,g   Brenet, Michel ^f,h   Arroyo, Adrian ^b   Taylor, Nicholas ^b,c   Clément, Sophie ^c,i   Daver, Guillaume ^j   Brugal, Jean Philip ^c,k   Leakey, Louise ^a   Mortlock, Richard A ^d   Wright, James D ^d   Lokorodi, Sammy ^c   Kirwa, Christopher ^c,l   Kent, Dennis V ^d,e   Roche, Hélène ^b,c   more..

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c West Turkana Archaeological Project   (Kenya)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^g SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h INRAP   (France)

ⁱ Department of Sociology Anthropology and Social Work Seton Hall University ^*  (France)

^j UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^k AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^l INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; FIELD SURVEY; FOSSIL RECORD; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOMINID; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; SAVANNA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TOOL USE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HOMININ; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; KENYA; LOMEKWIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEDIMENT; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL; HISTORY; HOMINID; PALEONTOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY; TIME; TOOL USE;

KENYA; TURKANA;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; KENYA; PALEONTOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84930225417     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14464     Document Type: Article

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