F T Masao
Biographic Data
| ID | 139816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F T Masao |
| GIVEN NAMES | F T |
| FAMILY NAME | Masao |
| SIGNATURE | MASAO F T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dar es Salaam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5553-9420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 274 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
New hominin dental remains from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
International audience
A Newly Discovered Acheulean Assemblage in the Mbulu Plateau, Northern Tanzania
Further Notes on the Ngaloba Industry, a Middle Stone Age Assemblage Directly Associated with Early Homo in the Greater Laetoli, Northern Tanzania
Olduvai's oldest Oldowan
Local people’s interpretations of the hominin footprints at Laetoli, Tanzania
In 1976 and 2014, scientists reported hominin footprints in Pliocene volcanic deposits at Laetoli, north-eastern Tanzania. They hypothesized that the footprints belong to the extinct hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. Not only have the footprints shaped scientists’ understanding of human biological evolution, but they have also placed Laetoli and Tanzania on the world’s paleoanthropological studies map. However, there have been different…
Lahar inundated, modified, and preserved 1.88 Ma early hominin (OH24 and OH56) Olduvai DK site
Eastern Equatorial Forest Variant of Acheulean and Subsequent Stone Age Industries: A Report of Stone Age Industries Discovered in Kabanga, Northwestern Tanzania
Following the desire by Kabanga Nickel Company Ltd. to develop nickel mining in Ngara District, north-western Tanzania, the Kabanga Nickel Project (KNP) commissioned assessment and retrieval of cultural heritage, i.e. (property and sites having archaeological, paleontological, historical, cultural, artistic or religious value) followed by mitigation measures as required by both the Government of Tanzania and the International Finance Corporation.…
Oh 83: A new early modern human fossil cranium from the Ndutu beds of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
There have been numerous attempts to use cranial anatomy to define the species Homo sapiens and identify it in the fossil record. These efforts have not met wide agreement by the scientific community due, in part, to the mosaic patterns of cranial variation represented by the fossils. The variable, mosaic pattern of trait expression in the crania of Middle and Late Pleistocene fossils implies that morphological modernity did not occur at once. Ho…
In situ ∼2.0 Ma trees discovered as fossil rooted stumps, lowermost Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Characterizing Archaeological Assemblages from Eastern Lake Natron, Tanzania: Results of Fieldwork Conducted in the Area
Unlike Peninj and Monik localities in western Lake Natron, eastern Lake Natron remains an archaeological terra incognita. A brief survey of the landforms adjacent to the eastern shoreline revealed 28 Stone Age archaeological sites exhibiting technological and typological features suggestive of the Acheulean Sangoan, Middle Stone Age (MSA), and Later Stone Age (LSA) distributed in three different landforms. While the majority of the assemblages we…
Landscape distribution of Oldowan stone artifact assemblages across the fault compartments of the eastern Olduvai Lake Basin during early lowermost Bed II times
Olduvai Gorge and the Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project
Environments and hominin activities across the FLK Peninsula during Zinjanthropus times (1.84 Ma), Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Effects of distance from stone source on landscape-scale variation in Oldowan artifact assemblages in the Paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Excavation in the previously little-explored western portion of Olduvai Gorge indicates that hominid land use of the eastern paleobasin extended at least episodically to the west. Finds included a dentally complete Homo maxilla (OH 65) with lower face, Oldowan stone artifacts, and butchery-marked bones dated to be between 1.84 and 1.79 million years old. The hominid shows strong affinities to the KNM ER 1470 cranium from Kenya ( Homo rudolfensis …
Reviving the village museum in Dar es Salaam
1. A wealth of vernacular architecture balanced by exemely scarce financial resources – this paradox has plagued the United Republic of Tanzania's Village Museum since its creation a quarter of a century ago. There is now, however, some cause for optimism, as this article shows. Its author, who holds degrees in anthropology and archaeology, is the former Director of the country's National Museums.Notes1. A wealth of vernacular architecture balanc…
Living sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania? Preliminary landscape archaeology results in the basal Bed II lake margin zone
New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
The Later Stone Age and the Rock Paintings of Central Tanzania
The Later Stone Age and the Rock Paintings of Central Tanzania
On possible use of unshaped flakes: An ethno-historical approach from central Tanzania
Effects of distance from stone source on landscape-scale variation in Oldowan artifact assemblages in the Paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
Environments and hominin activities across the FLK Peninsula during Zinjanthropus times (1.84 Ma), Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Living sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania? Preliminary landscape archaeology results in the basal Bed II lake margin zone
Landscape distribution of Oldowan stone artifact assemblages across the fault compartments of the eastern Olduvai Lake Basin during early lowermost Bed II times
Olduvai's oldest Oldowan
On possible use of unshaped flakes: An ethno-historical approach from central Tanzania
In situ ∼2.0 Ma trees discovered as fossil rooted stumps, lowermost Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Oh 83: A new early modern human fossil cranium from the Ndutu beds of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
There have been numerous attempts to use cranial anatomy to define the species Homo sapiens and identify it in the fossil record. These efforts have not met wide agreement by the scientific community due, in part, to the mosaic patterns of cranial variation represented by the fossils. The variable, mosaic pattern of trait expression in the crania of Middle and Late Pleistocene fossils implies that morphological modernity did not occur at once. Ho…
Olduvai Gorge and the Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project
Local people’s interpretations of the hominin footprints at Laetoli, Tanzania
In 1976 and 2014, scientists reported hominin footprints in Pliocene volcanic deposits at Laetoli, north-eastern Tanzania. They hypothesized that the footprints belong to the extinct hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. Not only have the footprints shaped scientists’ understanding of human biological evolution, but they have also placed Laetoli and Tanzania on the world’s paleoanthropological studies map. However, there have been different…
Characterizing Archaeological Assemblages from Eastern Lake Natron, Tanzania: Results of Fieldwork Conducted in the Area
Unlike Peninj and Monik localities in western Lake Natron, eastern Lake Natron remains an archaeological terra incognita. A brief survey of the landforms adjacent to the eastern shoreline revealed 28 Stone Age archaeological sites exhibiting technological and typological features suggestive of the Acheulean Sangoan, Middle Stone Age (MSA), and Later Stone Age (LSA) distributed in three different landforms. While the majority of the assemblages we…
The Later Stone Age and the Rock Paintings of Central Tanzania
The Later Stone Age and the Rock Paintings of Central Tanzania
On possible use of unshaped flakes: An ethno-historical approach from central Tanzania
New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Living sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania? Preliminary landscape archaeology results in the basal Bed II lake margin zone
Reviving the village museum in Dar es Salaam
1. A wealth of vernacular architecture balanced by exemely scarce financial resources – this paradox has plagued the United Republic of Tanzania's Village Museum since its creation a quarter of a century ago. There is now, however, some cause for optimism, as this article shows. Its author, who holds degrees in anthropology and archaeology, is the former Director of the country's National Museums.Notes1. A wealth of vernacular architecture balanc…
Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Excavation in the previously little-explored western portion of Olduvai Gorge indicates that hominid land use of the eastern paleobasin extended at least episodically to the west. Finds included a dentally complete Homo maxilla (OH 65) with lower face, Oldowan stone artifacts, and butchery-marked bones dated to be between 1.84 and 1.79 million years old. The hominid shows strong affinities to the KNM ER 1470 cranium from Kenya ( Homo rudolfensis …
Effects of distance from stone source on landscape-scale variation in Oldowan artifact assemblages in the Paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
Landscape distribution of Oldowan stone artifact assemblages across the fault compartments of the eastern Olduvai Lake Basin during early lowermost Bed II times
Olduvai Gorge and the Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project
Environments and hominin activities across the FLK Peninsula during Zinjanthropus times (1.84 Ma), Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Characterizing Archaeological Assemblages from Eastern Lake Natron, Tanzania: Results of Fieldwork Conducted in the Area
Unlike Peninj and Monik localities in western Lake Natron, eastern Lake Natron remains an archaeological terra incognita. A brief survey of the landforms adjacent to the eastern shoreline revealed 28 Stone Age archaeological sites exhibiting technological and typological features suggestive of the Acheulean Sangoan, Middle Stone Age (MSA), and Later Stone Age (LSA) distributed in three different landforms. While the majority of the assemblages we…
In situ ∼2.0 Ma trees discovered as fossil rooted stumps, lowermost Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Eastern Equatorial Forest Variant of Acheulean and Subsequent Stone Age Industries: A Report of Stone Age Industries Discovered in Kabanga, Northwestern Tanzania
Following the desire by Kabanga Nickel Company Ltd. to develop nickel mining in Ngara District, north-western Tanzania, the Kabanga Nickel Project (KNP) commissioned assessment and retrieval of cultural heritage, i.e. (property and sites having archaeological, paleontological, historical, cultural, artistic or religious value) followed by mitigation measures as required by both the Government of Tanzania and the International Finance Corporation.…
Oh 83: A new early modern human fossil cranium from the Ndutu beds of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
There have been numerous attempts to use cranial anatomy to define the species Homo sapiens and identify it in the fossil record. These efforts have not met wide agreement by the scientific community due, in part, to the mosaic patterns of cranial variation represented by the fossils. The variable, mosaic pattern of trait expression in the crania of Middle and Late Pleistocene fossils implies that morphological modernity did not occur at once. Ho…
Lahar inundated, modified, and preserved 1.88 Ma early hominin (OH24 and OH56) Olduvai DK site
Local people’s interpretations of the hominin footprints at Laetoli, Tanzania
In 1976 and 2014, scientists reported hominin footprints in Pliocene volcanic deposits at Laetoli, north-eastern Tanzania. They hypothesized that the footprints belong to the extinct hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. Not only have the footprints shaped scientists’ understanding of human biological evolution, but they have also placed Laetoli and Tanzania on the world’s paleoanthropological studies map. However, there have been different…
Further Notes on the Ngaloba Industry, a Middle Stone Age Assemblage Directly Associated with Early Homo in the Greater Laetoli, Northern Tanzania
Olduvai's oldest Oldowan
A Newly Discovered Acheulean Assemblage in the Mbulu Plateau, Northern Tanzania
New hominin dental remains from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
International audience
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 works) · Archaeology (17 works) · Geology (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Olduvai Gorge (13 works) · Paleontology (13 works) · Geology (12 works) · Paleontology (11 works) · Biology (9 works) · Tanzania (9 works)