Landscape-scale variation in hominin tool use: Evidence from the Developed Oldowan.

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Journal of Human Evolution

• Publication date

  2008-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Geology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.05.020PMID 18845314
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• The Explanation of Culture Change: Models in Prehistory ed. by Colin Renfrew (review)

  2023cited by this paper
• Oldowan behavior and raw material transport: perspectives from the Kanjera Formation

  2008cited by this paper
• Effects of distance from stone source on landscape-scale variation in Oldowan artifact assemblages in the Paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania

  2008cited by this paper
• An experimental investigation of cut mark production and stone tool attrition

  2008cited by this paper
• Technology, Flaked Stone Technology, and Risk

  2008cited by this paper
• Chaînes opératoires and resource-exploitation strategies in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) nut cracking.

  2008cited by this paper
• Paleogeographic variations of pedogenic carbonate delta13C values from Koobi Fora, Kenya: implications for floral compositions of Plio-Pleistocene hominin environments.

  2007cited by this paper
• Apes Save Tools for Future Use

  2006cited by this paper
• Precise 40Ar/39Ar geochronology for the upper Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, northern Kenya

  2006cited by this paper
• Late Pliocene hominid knapping skills: the case of Lokalalei 2C, West Turkana, Kenya.

  2005cited by this paper
• Unmodified lithic material at Olduvai Bed I: manuports or ecofacts?

  2005cited by this paper
• Raw material selectivity of the earliest stone toolmakers at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia.

  2005cited by this paper
• Use life and curation in New Guinea experimental used flakes

  2005cited by this paper
• STONE TOOLS AND THE UNIQUENESS OF HUMAN CULTURE

  2005cited by this paper
• Defining and measuring reduction in unifacial stone tools

  2005cited by this paper
• Experimental evaluation of Kuhn's geometric index of reduction and the flat-flake problem

  2005cited by this paper
• Paleoenvironments of the earliest stone toolmakers, Gona, Ethiopia

  2004cited by this paper
• Omo Revisited: Evaluating the Technological Skills of Pliocene Hominids

  2004cited by this paper
• Modeling Use-Life Distributions in Archaeology Using New Guinea Wola Ethnographic Data

  2004cited by this paper
• Technological developments in the Oldowan of Koobi Fora

  2003cited by this paper
• Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

  2003cited by this paper
• The Oldowan industry of Peninj and its bearing on the reconstruction of the technological skills of Lower Pleistocene hominids.

  2003cited by this paper
• A Neutral Model of Stone Raw Material Procurement

  2003cited by this paper
• Oldowan, rather more than smashing stones

  2003cited by this paper
• An Index of Invasiveness for the Measurement of Unifacial and Bifacial Retouch: A Theoretical, Experimental and Archaeological Verification

  2002cited by this paper
• Examining time trends in the Oldowan technology at Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge.

  2002cited by this paper
• Rocks are heavy: transport costs and Paleoarchaic quarry behavior in the Great Basin

  2002cited by this paper
• Skill and Cognition in Stone Tool Production

  2002cited by this paper
• Weibull Estimation on Use Life Distribution in Experimental Spear-Point Data

  2002cited by this paper
• The ST Site Complex at Peninj, West Lake Natron, Tanzania: Implications for Early Hominid Behavioural Models

  2002cited by this paper
• Where Do Research Problems Come From?

  2001cited by this paper
• Hunter-gatherers : an interdisciplinary perspective

  2001cited by this paper
• Research Problems R Us

  2001cited by this paper
• Flake Size from Platform Attributes: Predictive and Empirical Approaches

  2000cited by this paper
• Stone Tool-Making and Brain Activation: Position Emission Tomography (PET) Studies

  2000cited by this paper
• Environment and behavior of 2.5-million-year-old Bouri hominids.

  1999cited by this paper
• Stone Tool Analysis Using Digitized Images: Examples from the Lower and Middle Paleolithic

  1999cited by this paper
• Tool-using strategies by early hominids at bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

  1999cited by this paper
• Production and Transport of Blanks and Tools at the French Middle Paleolithic Site of Combe-Capelle Bas

  1998cited by this paper
• The Threshold Effect of Platform Width: A Reply to Davis and Shea

  1998cited by this paper
• Differential Raw Material Use in the Middle Pleistocene of Spain: Evidence from Sierra de Atapuerca, Torralba, Ambrona and Aridos

  1998cited by this paper
• Archaeological predictions for hominid land use in the paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania, during lowermost Bed II times.

  1998cited by this paper
• Comment on : Quantifying lithic curation : An experimental test of Dibble and Pelcin's original flake-tool mass predictor by Zachary J. Davis and John J. Shea

  1998cited by this paper
• Quantifying Lithic Curation: An Experimental Test of Dibble and Pelcin's Original Flake-Tool Mass Predictor

  1998cited by this paper
• Hominid–Carnivore Coevolution and Invasion of the Predatory Guild

  1998cited by this paper
• Middle and Upper Palaeolithic raw material transfers in western and central Europe: assessing the pace of change

  1997cited by this paper
• The Effect of Indentor Type on Flake Attributes: Evidence from a Controlled Experiment

  1997cited by this paper
• Unpacking the Discard Equation: Simulating the Accumulation of Artifacts in the Archaeological Record

  1997cited by this paper
• The Effect of Core Surface Morphology on Flake Attributes: Evidence from a Controlled Experiment

  1997cited by this paper
• Plio-pleistocene archaeology

  1997cited by this paper
• Platform Variability and Flake Morphology: A Comparison of Experimental and Archaeological Data and Implications for Interpreting Prehistoric Lithic Technological Strategies

  1997cited by this paper
• The Formation of Flakes: The Role of Platform Thickness and Exterior Platform Angle in the Production of Flake Initiations and Terminations

  1997cited by this paper
• Rediscovering Darwin : evolutionary theory and archeological explanation

  1997cited by this paper
• Transformations of Upper Palaeolithic implements in the Dabba industry from Haua Fteah (Libya)

  1996cited by this paper
• Economizing Behavior and the Concept of “Curation”

  1996cited by this paper
• An Exegesis of the Curation Concept

  1996cited by this paper
• Mortal Pots: On Use Life and Vessel Size in the Formation of Ceramic Assemblages

  1996cited by this paper
• Beyond the Graver: Reconsidering Burin Function

  1996cited by this paper
• Stone tools : theoretical insights into human prehistory

  1996cited by this paper
• The Effect of Hammer Mass and Velocity on Flake Mass

  1995cited by this paper
• Middle paleolithic scraper reduction: Background, clarification, and review of the evidence to date

  1995cited by this paper
• The Middle Paleolithic Site of Combe-Capelle Bas (France)

  1995cited by this paper
• How much is a scraper? Curation, use rates, and the formation of scraper assemblages

  1995cited by this paper
• A new approach to interpreting late Pleistocene microlith industries in southwest Asia

  1994cited by this paper
• The implications of time-averaging for reconstructing the land-use patterns of early tool-using hominids

  1994cited by this paper
• Variables versus models of early Pleistocene hominid land use

  1994cited by this paper
• Changing patterns of land use by Plio-Pleistocene hominids in the Lake Turkana Basin

  1994cited by this paper
• A reduction model for variability in Acheulian biface morphology

  1994cited by this paper
• The Middle Paleolithic: Adaptation, Behavior, and Variability

  1993cited by this paper
• Mousterian Tool Selection, Reduction, and Discard at Ghar, Israel

  1993cited by this paper
• Blank Form and Reduction as Determinants of Mousterian Scraper Morphology

  1992cited by this paper
• Why the Oldowan? Plio-Pleistocene Toolmaking and the Transport of Resources

  1991cited by this paper
• Living sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania? Preliminary landscape archaeology results in the basal Bed II lake margin zone

  1991cited by this paper
• L'homme de Neandertal

  1991cited by this paper
• A New Synthesis of Middle Paleolithic Variability

  1990cited by this paper
• Time, Energy, and Stone Tools

  1990cited by this paper
• On Tool-Class Use Lives and the Formation of Archaeological Assemblages

  1989cited by this paper
• Were There Hafted Projectile Points in the Mousterian

  1989cited by this paper
• The Pleistocene Old World. Regional Perspectives

  1989cited by this paper
• Modeling the formation of Early Stone Age artifact concentrations

  1987cited by this paper
• From Chopper to Celt: The Evolution of Resharpening Techniques

  1987cited by this paper
• Behavioral inferences from Early Stone artifact assemblages: an experimental model☆

  1987cited by this paper
• Technological Efficiency and Tool Curation

  1986cited by this paper
• The oldowan reassessed: a close look at early stone artifacts

  1985cited by this paper
• Early stages in the evolution of human behavior : the adaptive significance of stone tools

  1983cited by this paper
• Archaeological Tests of Alternative Models of Early Hominid Behaviour: Excavation and Experiments

  1981cited by this paper
• Organization and Formation Processes: Looking at Curated Technologies

  1979cited by this paper
• Book Review: Geology of the Olduvai Gorge: A study of sedimentation in a semi-arid basin. R.L. Hay. Univ. California Press, London, 1976, 203 pp. £ 15.75

  1978cited by this paper
• Prehistory and Paleoenvironments in the Central Negev, Israel.

  1977cited by this paper
• The Karari Industry: Early Pleistocene archaeological evidence from the terrain east of Lake Turkana, Kenya

  1976cited by this paper
• Geology of the Olduvai Gorge: A Study of Sedimentation in a Semiarid Basin

  1976cited by this paper
• A Functional Analysis of Certain Chipped Stone Tools

  1968cited by this paper

• Setbacks in the use of a handaxe: lithic investment and seasonality in the Early Acheulean

  2025cites this paper
• Finding the original mass: A machine learning model and its deployment for lithic scrapers

  2025influential citation
• White-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator) exhibit selectivity for stone tools

  2025cites this paper
• New Oldowan locality Sare-Abururu (ca. 1.7 Ma) provides evidence of diverse hominin behaviors on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya.

  2024cites this paper
• Inter-site and Intra-site Comparison of Recycling in Paleolithic Surface Contexts of Central Kazakhstan

  2024cites this paper
• Modeling Oldowan tool transport from a primate perspective.

  2023cites this paper
• Skill and Core Uniformity: An Experiment with Oldowan-like Flaking Systems

  2023cites this paper
• Seasonality and Lithic Investment in the Oldowan

  2023cites this paper
• Did Early Pleistocene hominins control hammer strike angles when making stone tools?

  2023cites this paper
• Emergent technological variation in archaeological landscapes: a primate perspective

  2023cites this paper
• Flint Type Analysis at Late Acheulian Jaljulia (Israel), and Implications for the Origins of Prepared Core Technologies

  2022cites this paper
• Continuity and change in lithic techno-economy of the early Acheulian on the Ethiopian highland: A case study from locality MW2; the Melka Wakena site-complex

  2022cites this paper
• A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production

  2022cites this paper
• Multiple approaches to predicting flake mass

  2022cites this paper
• Artifact3-D: New software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts

  2022cites this paper
• The mediating effect of platform width on the size and shape of stone flakes

  2022cites this paper
• Predicting Flake Mass: A View from Machine Learning

  2021influential citation
• Before the Acheulean: The emergence of bifacial shaping at Kokiselei 6 (1.8 Ma), West Turkana, Kenya.

  2021cites this paper
• The results of lithic experiments performed on glass cores are applicable to other raw materials

  2020cites this paper
• Late lower paleolithic lithic procurement and exploitation strategies: A view from Acheulo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave (Israel)

  2020cites this paper
• Exploring the Influence of Predation Risks on Oldowan Tool Use in South Africa

  2020cites this paper
• Experimental and archaeological testing with 3D laser scanning reveals the limits of I/TMC as a reduction index for global scraper and point studies

  2020cites this paper
• Bovid mortality patterns from Kanjera South, Homa Peninsula, Kenya and FLK-Zinj, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Evidence for habitat mediated variability in Oldowan hominin hunting and scavenging behavior.

  2019cites this paper
• Identifying Raw Material Transportation and Reduction Strategies from the Lithic Scatters at Elandsdrift Farm (Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site), South Africa

  2019influential citation
• Fingerprinting of quartzitic outcrops at Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania

  2019cites this paper
• Group-specific archaeological signatures of stone tool use in wild macaques

  2019cites this paper
• Temporal and Stratigraphic Framework for Paleoanthropology Sites Within East-Central Area 130, Koobi Fora, Kenya

  2019influential citation
• The effects of blank size and knapping strategy on the estimation of core’s reduction intensity

  2019cites this paper
• Three thousand years of wild capuchin stone tool use

  2019cites this paper
• Comparative isotopic evidence from East Turkana supports a dietary shift within the genus Homo

  2019cites this paper
• Identifying Raw Material Transportation and Reduction Strategies from the Lithic Scatters at Elandsdrift Farm (Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site), South Africa

  2019cites this paper
• FwJj70 – A potential Early Stone Age single carcass butchery locality preserved in a fragmentary surface assemblage

  2018cites this paper
• Próby modelowania dynamiki narzędziowej wczesnych hominidów w świetle archeologii kognitywnej

  2018cites this paper
• Reconstructing Landscape Use Patterns Using Strontium Isotope Ratios

  2018cites this paper
• Toward a Macroevolutionary Theory of Human Evolution: The Social Protocell

  2018influential citation
• Core Use-Life Distributions in Lithic Assemblages as a Means for Reconstructing Behavioral Patterns

  2018cites this paper
• Site fragmentation, hominin mobility and LCT variability reflected in the early Acheulean record of the Okote Member, at Koobi Fora, Kenya.

  2018cites this paper
• Revisiting Panda 100, the first archaeological chimpanzee nut-cracking site.

  2018cites this paper
• A geometric morphometric relationship predicts stone flake shape and size variability

  2018cites this paper
• Oldowan technological behaviour at HWK EE (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania).

  2018cites this paper
• The East African Early Acheulean of Peninj (Lake Natron, Tanzania)

  2018cites this paper
• Reduction intensity of backed blades: Blank consumption, regularity and efficiency at the early Neolithic site of Boncuklu, Turkey

  2018cites this paper
• Before the Acheulean in East Africa: An Overview of the Oldowan Lithic Assemblages

  2018cites this paper
• Ecosystem evolution and hominin paleobiology at East Turkana, northern Kenya between 2.0 and 1.4 Ma

  2017influential citation
• Crevasse‐splay and associated depositional environments of the hominin‐bearing lower Okote Member, Koobi Fora Formation (Plio‐Pleistocene), Kenya

  2017cites this paper
• Investigating hominin carnivory in the Okote Member of Koobi Fora, Kenya with an actualistic model of carcass consumption and traces of butchery on the elbow.

  2017cites this paper
• Landscape scale heterogeneity in the East Turkana ecosystem during the Okote Member (1.56-1.38 Ma).

  2017cites this paper
• The Archaeology of Teaching and the Evolution of Homo docens

  2017cites this paper
• What factors govern the procurement and use of silcrete during the Stone Age of South Africa

  2017cites this paper
• Lithic production strategies in the Middle Paleolithic of the southern Balkans

  2017cites this paper
• “Undatable, unattractive, redundant”? The Rapavi silcrete source, Saint-Pierre-Eynac (Haute-Loire, France): Challenges studying a prehistoric quarry-workshop in the Massif Central mountains

  2017cites this paper
• Lithic Production Strategies in the Oldowan Assemblages from Sterkfontein Member 5 and Swartkrans Member 1, Gauteng Province, South Africa

  2017cites this paper
• Core Use-Life Distributions in Lithic Assemblages as a Means for Reconstructing Behavioral Patterns

  2017influential citation
• A new method for accurately and precisely measuring flake platform area

  2016cites this paper
• A technological analysis of the Oldowan and Developed Oldowan Assemblages from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

  2016cites this paper
• The origins of the Acheulean: past and present perspectives on a major transition in human evolution.

  2016cites this paper
• The East African origin of the Western European Acheulean technology: Fact or paradigm?

  2016cites this paper
• An experimental approach to distinguishing different stone artefact transport patterns from debitage assemblages

  2016cites this paper
• Two Acheuleans, two humankinds: From 1.5 to 0.85 Ma at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopian highlands).

  2016cites this paper
• Modelling the palimpsest: An exploratory agent-based model of surface archaeological deposit formation in a fluvial arid Australian landscape

  2016cites this paper
• The origins of the Acheulean: past and present perspectives on a major transition in human evolution

  2016cites this paper
• Hierarchical Organization in the Acheulean to Middle Palaeolithic Transition at Bhimbetka, India

  2016cites this paper
• Stable isotope ecology of Cape dune mole-rats (Bathyergus suillus) from Elandsfontein, South Africa: Implications for C4 vegetation and hominin paleobiology in the Cape Floral Region

  2016cites this paper
• Edge Length and Surface Area of a Blank: Experimental Assessment of Measures, Size Predictions and Utility

  2015cites this paper
• Flake scar density and handaxe reduction intensity

  2015cites this paper
• Quantifying the Reduction Intensity of Handaxes with 3D Technology: A Pilot Study on Handaxes in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, Central China

  2015cites this paper
• Knowing, Learning and Teaching—How Homo Became Docens

  2015influential citation
• Large cutting tools in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, central China: typology, technology and morphology

  2015cites this paper
• Multi-scale Acheulean landscape survey in the Arabian Desert

  2015cites this paper
• The Unknown Oldowan: ~1.7-Million-Year-Old Standardized Obsidian Small Tools from Garba IV, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia

  2015cites this paper
• Estimating original flake mass on blades using 3D platform area: problems and prospects

  2014cites this paper
• The Transition to the Acheulean in East Africa: an Assessment of Paradigms and Evidence from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

  2014cites this paper
• Catchment Survey in the Karonga District: a Landscape-Scale Analysis of Provisioning and Core Reduction Strategies During the Middle Stone Age of Northern Malawi

  2014cites this paper
• Taphonomic estimates of competition and the role of carnivore avoidance in hominin site use within the Early Pleistocene Olduvai Basin

  2014cites this paper
• Catchment Survey in the Karonga District: a Landscape-Scale Analysis of Provisioning and Core Reduction Strategies During the Middle Stone Age of Northern Malawi

  2014cites this paper
• An Evolutionary Developmental Approach to Cultural Evolution

  2014cites this paper
• Sites on the landscape: Paleoenvironmental context of late Pleistocene archaeological sites from the Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa

  2014cites this paper
• The Functional Morphology of Jaws and Teeth: Implications for Understanding Early Hominin Dietary Adaptations

  2013cites this paper
• Pedogenic carbonate stable isotopic evidence for wooded habitat preference of early Pleistocene tool makers in the Turkana Basin.

  2013cites this paper
• Mid-Pleistocene Hominin occupation at Elandsfontein, Western Cape, South Africa

  2013influential citation
• The Ban Don Mun artifacts: a chronological reappraisal of human occupations in the Lampang province of Northern Thailand.

  2013cites this paper
• The Transition to the Acheulean in East Africa: an Assessment of Paradigms and Evidence from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

  2013influential citation
• Fidelity and the emergence of stable and cumulative sociotechnical systems

  2013cites this paper
• An older origin for the Acheulean at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia): techno-economic behaviours at Garba IVD.

  2013cites this paper
• Adaptive Flexibility of Oldowan Hominins: Secondary Use of Flakes at Bizat Ruhama, Israel

  2013cites this paper
• Variability in Ethnographic Hidescraper Use among the Hadiya of Ethiopia: Implications for Reduction Analysis

  2012cites this paper
• Raw material selectivity in Late Pliocene Oldowan sites in the Makaamitalu Basin, Hadar, Ethiopia.

  2012influential citation
• Variability in Ethnographic Hidescraper Use among the Hadiya of Ethiopia: Implications for Reduction Analysis

  2012cites this paper
• Factors affecting Early Stone Age cut mark cross-sectional size: implications from actualistic butchery trials

  2012cites this paper
• Africa and Asia: Comparisons of the Earliest Archaeological Evidence

  2011cites this paper
• Archaeological horizons and fluvial processes at the Lower Paleolithic open-air site of Revadim (Israel).

  2011cites this paper
• The Early Stone Age lithic assemblages of Gadeb (Ethiopia) and the Developed Oldowan/early Acheulean in East Africa.

  2011cites this paper
• Estimating original flake mass from 3D scans of platform area

  2011influential citation
• Controlled butchery observations as a means for interpreting Okote member hominin carnivory at Koobi Fora, Kenya

  2011influential citation
• Special Issue: Reduction Sequence, Chaîne Opératoire, and Other Methods: The Epistemologies of Different Approaches to Lithic Analysis Approaches for Understanding Flake Production in the African Acheulean

  2011cites this paper
• The Early Stone Age lithic assemblages of Gadeb (Ethiopia) and the Developed Oldowan/early Acheulean in East Africa.

  2011cites this paper
• Chaîne Opératoire , and Other Methods : The Epistemologies of Different Approaches to Lithic Analysis Approaches for Understanding Flake Production in the African Acheulean

  2011cites this paper
• Givat Rabi East, a New Middle Paleolithic Knapping Site in the Lower Galilee (Israel)

  2011cites this paper
• What novice knappers have to learn to become expert stone toolmakers

  2010cites this paper
• A demographic model for Palaeolithic technological evolution: The case of East Asia and the Movius Line

  2010cites this paper