Microwear polishes on early stone tools from Koobi Fora, Kenya

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  1981

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1981-10-08

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Geology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/293464A0
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• K–Ar age estimate for the KBS Tuff, East Turkana, Kenya

  1980cited by this paper
• FxJj50: An early Pleistocene site in northern Kenya

  1980cited by this paper
• KBS Tuff dating and geochronology of tuffaceous sediments in the Koobi Fora and Shungura Formations, East Africa

  1980cited by this paper
• Fission track age of the KBS Tuff and associated hominid remains in northern Kenya

  1980cited by this paper
• A testimony of prehistoric tasks: diagnostic residues on stone tool working edges

  1980cited by this paper
• Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]

  1979cited by this paper
• Experimental Determination of Stone Tool Uses: A Microwear Analysis

  1979cited by this paper
• Microwear analysis of experimental flint tools: a test case

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

  1976cited by this paper

• The heavy connection: Decline in heavy-duty tools correlates with megaherbivore disappearance in the Paleolithic Levant

  2026cites this paper
• Modern stone tool users from northern Kenya emphasize mass and edge length in the selection of cutting tools.

  2026cites this paper
• Use-Wear Analysis Shows Changing Handaxe Grip and Use Across Time at la Noira (France)

  2025cites this paper
• Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

  2025cites this paper
• Experimental use-wear on non-flint tools: Unraveling butchering processes at the Cueva Des-Cubierta site (Pinilla del Valle, Spain)

  2025cites this paper
• Mesolithic plant processing unveiled: Multiscale use-wear analysis of the ground stone tools from Vlasac (Serbia)

  2025cites this paper
• The archaeological visibility of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) nut-cracking.

  2024cites this paper
• 'Snakes and ladders' in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago.

  2024cites this paper
• Back(s) to basics: The concept of backing in stone tool technologies for tracing hominins' technical innovations

  2024cites this paper
• Through Time: Reconstructing Palaeolithic Occupations Through Use-Wear Analysis in the Middle Palaeolithic Site of Ciota Ciara (Borgosesia, Italy)

  2024cites this paper
• When to generalise and when to specialise? Climate Change and Hominin Biocultural Adaptability in the African Early and Middle Stone Age

  2024cites this paper
• How good are giant handaxes in utilitarian functions? An experimental assessment

  2024cites this paper
• Unraveling the spatial imprint of hominin and carnivore accumulations in Early Pleistocene African sites

  2024cites this paper
• Searching for the earliest archaeological record: insights from chimpanzee material landscapes

  2024cites this paper
• Brief interviews with hideous stone: a glimpse into the butchery site of Isernia La Pineta — a combined technological and use-wear approach on the lithic tools to evaluate the function of a Lower Palaeolithic context

  2023influential citation
• Modeling Oldowan tool transport from a primate perspective.

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

  2023cites this paper
• The earliest basketry in southern Europe: Hunter-gatherer and farmer plant-based technology in Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol)

  2023cites this paper
• Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago

  2023cites this paper
• Identifying intentional flake production at the dawn of technology: A technological and 3D geometric morphometric study

  2023cites this paper
• A primate model for the origin of flake technology.

  2022cites this paper
• Microbotanical residues for the study of early hominin tools

  2022cites this paper
• Examining the suitability of extant primates as models of hominin stone tool culture

  2022cites this paper
• The evolution of combinatoriality and compositionality in hominid tool use: a comparative perspective

  2022influential citation
• Experimental investigation of orangutans’ lithic percussive and sharp stone tool behaviours

  2022cites this paper
• The effect of worked material hardness on stone tool wear

  2022cites this paper
• Examining the suitability of extant primates as models of hominin stone tool culture

  2022cites this paper
• Three-dimensional surface morphometry differentiates behaviour on primate percussive stone tools

  2021cites this paper
• Knocking on Acheulean’s door. DK revisited (Bed I, Olduvai, Tanzania)

  2021cites this paper
• The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 - an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan

  2021cites this paper
• The first comprehensive micro use-wear analysis of an early Acheulean assemblage (Thiongo Korongo, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

  2021cites this paper
• An integrated study discloses chopping tools use from Late Acheulean Revadim (Israel)

  2021cites this paper
• Reply: A critique of the Ennos and Chan fire-hardening study, concerning wood material representation in archaeological finds and generalized conclusions

  2021cites this paper
• Could woodworking have driven lithic tool selection?

  2021cites this paper
• Use-wear analysis of the late Middle Pleistocene quartzite assemblage from the Gran Dolina site, TD10.1 subunit (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)

  2020cites this paper
• A Middle Pleistocene abrading tool from Tabun Cave, Israel: A search for the roots of abrading technology in human evolution.

  2020cites this paper
• Use-Wear Analysis of the Lithic Industry of the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Guado San Nicola (Isernia, Central Italy)

  2020cites this paper
• Africa under the microscope: What ’ s new in techno-functional analyses in archaeology?

  2020cites this paper
• A 1.4-million-year-old bone handaxe from Konso, Ethiopia, shows advanced tool technology in the early Acheulean

  2020cites this paper
• The Neandertal bone industry at Chagyrskaya cave, Altai Region, Russia

  2020cites this paper
• Africa under the microscope: What's new in techno-functional analyses in archaeology?

  2020cites this paper
• Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa

  2020cites this paper
• Large mammal hunting and use of aquatic food resources in the Early Palaeolithic (finds from Early Acheulean sites in the southern Azov Sea region)

  2020cites this paper
• Searching for hidden activities: Percussive tools from the Oldowan and Acheulean of West Turkana, Kenya (2.3–1.76 Ma)

  2020cites this paper
• Experimental approaches to the development of use-wear traces on volcanic rocks: basalts

  2020cites this paper
• Influences of dietary niche expansion and Pliocene environmental changes on the origins of stone tool making

  2020cites this paper
• Use-Wear Analysis of the Lithic Industry of the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Guado San Nicola (Isernia, Central Italy)

  2020influential citation
• Zoon politikon: The evolutionary origins of human socio-political systems.

  2019cites this paper
• A use-wear interpretation of the most common raw materials from the Olduvai Gorge: Naibor Soit quartzite

  2019cites this paper
• Techno-functional analysis of small recycled flakes from Late Acheulian Revadim (Israel) demonstrates a link between morphology and function

  2019cites this paper
• Human behavior and Homo-mammal interactions at the first European peopling: new evidence from the Pirro Nord site (Apricena, Southern Italy)

  2019cites this paper
• Cultural complexity and complexity evolution

  2019cites this paper
• Lawrence H. Keeley's contributions to the use of microwear analysis in reconstructions of past human behavior (1972–2017)

  2019cites this paper
• Going big versus going small: Lithic miniaturization in hominin lithic technology

  2019cites this paper
• Active percussion tools from the Oldowan site of Barranco León (Orce, Andalusia, Spain): The fundamental role of pounding activities in hominin lifeways

  2018cites this paper
• Lethal threshold : the evolutionary implications of Middle Pleistocene wooden spears

  2018influential citation
• Revisiting the hunting-versus-scavenging debate at FLK Zinj: A GIS spatial analysis of bone surface modifications produced by hominins and carnivores in the FLK 22 assemblage, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

  2018cites this paper
• GPS-identified vulnerabilities of savannah-woodland primates to leopard predation and their implications for early hominins.

  2018cites this paper
• A brief history of meat in the human diet and current health implications.

  2018cites this paper
• On the Function of Late Acheulean Stone Tools: New Data From Three Specific Archaeological Contexts at the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Revadim, Israel

  2018cites this paper
• Plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: Food, medicine and raw materials

  2018cites this paper
• The Early Acheulean ~1.6–1.2 Ma from Gona, Ethiopia: Issues related to the Emergence of the Acheulean in Africa

  2018cites this paper
• Investigating interrelationships between Lower Palaeolithic stone tool effectiveness and tool user biometric variation: implications for technological and evolutionary changes

  2018cites this paper
• Works in Stone

  2017cites this paper
• Pounding tools in HWK EE and EF-HR (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): Percussive activities in the Oldowan-Acheulean transition.

  2017cites this paper
• Exploring handaxe function at Shishan Marsh – 1: combining qualitative and quantitative approaches using the edge damage distribution method

  2017cites this paper
• High handaxe symmetry at the beginning of the European Acheulian: The data from la Noira (France) in context

  2017cites this paper
• Microwear analysis of Mousterian quartz tools from the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid, Spain)

  2016cites this paper
• Assessing the function of pounding tools in the Early Stone Age: A microscopic approach to the analysis of percussive artefacts from Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

  2016cites this paper
• Nut Cracking Tools Used by Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Their Comparison with Early Stone Age Percussive Artefacts from Olduvai Gorge

  2016cites this paper
• LANGUAGE AND ITS ARCHAEOLOGY

  2016cites this paper
• R??valuation of the fossil record at Olduvai Gorge suggests that the concentrations of bones and stone tools do not represent fully formed campsites but an antecedent to them

  2016cites this paper
• Techno-economic human behavior in a context of recurrent megafaunal exploitation at 1.3 Ma. Evidence from BK4b (Upper Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

  2016cites this paper
• Human Brain Expansion during Evolution Is Independent of Fire Control and Cooking

  2016cites this paper
• Lessons from Ginsberg: An analysis of elephant butchery tools

  2016cites this paper
• Evolution of brain ontogenetic growth under ecological challenges

  2016influential citation
• Impact of meat and Lower Palaeolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans

  2016cites this paper
• Biomechanics of the Hominin Upper Limb: Entheseal Development and Stone Tool Manufacture

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

  2016cites this paper
• An actualistic butchery study in South Africa and its implications for reconstructing hominid strategies of carcass acquisition and butchery in the upper Pleistocene and plio-Pleistocene

  2016cites this paper
• Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates

  2016cites this paper
• The Early Pleistocene site of Kermek in western Ciscaucasia (southern Russia): Stratigraphy, biotic record and lithic industry (preliminary results)

  2016cites this paper
• Stone Tools: Evidence of Something in Between Culture and Cumulative Culture?

  2016cites this paper
• Climate, Ecology, and Human Evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene

  2016cites this paper
• Evolutionary psychology and stone tool production : an examination of novice blow strength judgement in a knapping task

  2016cites this paper
• A model for brain life history evolution

  2016influential citation
• Looking at handaxes from another angle: Assessing the ergonomic and functional importance of edge form in Acheulean bifaces

  2016cites this paper
• Use and re-use: Re-knapped flakes from the Mode 1 site of Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Andalucía, Spain)

  2015cites this paper
• Zoon Politikon

  2015cites this paper
• Documenting Differences between Early Stone Age Flake Production Systems: An Experimental Model and Archaeological Verification

  2015cites this paper
• Middle Paleolithic sidescrapers were resharped or recycled? A view from Nesher Ramla, Israel

  2015cites this paper
• Is Loading a Significantly Influential Factor in the Development of Lithic Microwear? An Experimental Test Using LSCM on Basalt from Olduvai Gorge

  2015cites this paper
• The effects of contact with farmers on the hunter-gatherers' lithic assemblages: use-wear analysis of stone tools from Holkrans, North West Province, South Africa

  2015cites this paper
• Use-wear Analysis of Nonflint Lithic Raw Materials: The Cases of Quartz/Quartzite and Obsidian

  2015cites this paper
• Residue and microwear analyses of the stone artifacts from Schöningen.

  2015influential citation
• Fat Residue and Use-Wear Found on Acheulian Biface and Scraper Associated with Butchered Elephant Remains at the Site of Revadim, Israel

  2015cites this paper
• The origins of stone tool reduction and the transition to knapping: An experimental approach

  2015cites this paper
• A new perspective on innovation

  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
• Prey mortality profiles indicate that Early Pleistocene Homo at Olduvai was an ambush predator

  2014cites this paper