Behavioral inferences from Early Stone artifact assemblages
An Experimental Model
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5897202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Toth (Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 7-8 |
| Pages | 763-787 |
| Publication date | 1987-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Evolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2484 • E-ISSN: 1095-8606 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0047-2484(87)90023-6 |
| OpenAlex | W2024066321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
| References cited | 46 |
Archaeology · Artifact (error) · Biology · Cave · Evolutionary biology · Extant taxon · Geography · Lithic technology · Middle Stone Age · Paleoanthropology · Pleistocene · Stone tool · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Geology · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Primate Behavior and Ecology
Recently Discovered Middle Palaeolithic Foothill Site at Kundakhai in the Southern Bargarh Upland of Odisha
Edge Modification as an Indicator of Function and Handedness of Acheulian Handaxes from Kariandusi, Kenya
The Future of Lithic Analysis in Palaeolithic Archaeology
Why the Oldowan? Plio-Pleistocene Toolmaking and the Transport of Resources
Perspectives on stone tools and cognition in the early Paleolithic record
Whatdoes Oldowan technology represent in terms of hominin behavior?
Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus
Kundakhai
Hunting for evidence of cognitive planning
Size and form in the analysis of flake debris
Estimation of temperatures beneath archaeological campfires using carbon stable isotope composition of soil organic matter
Carnivory, Coevolution, and the Geographic Spread of the Genus Homo
Hunting and Scavenging by Early Humans
Refitting Rate as a Tool for Investigating Geological and Behavioral Aspects of Site Formation
Observations on Systematics in Paleolithic Archaeology
Paleoanthropology at the Millennium
The Oldowan-Acheulian Transition
Variability in Raw Material Selectivity at the Late Pliocene sites of Lokalalei, West Turkana, Kenya
Introduction
Origins and Adaptations of Early Homo
The First Humans – Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo
The Oldowan of Zarqa Valley, Northern Jordan
Major Fallacies Surrounding Stone Artifacts and Assemblages
The Transition to the Acheulean in East Africa
The influence of raw material size on stone artefact assemblage formation
From blunt to cutting
Pleistocene sites in southern Yemen
An experimental investigation of cut mark production and stone tool attrition
The World's Oldest Stone Artefacts from Gona, Ethiopia
Defining and measuring reduction in unifacial stone tools
Middle Pleistocene hominin occupation in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, Central China
Thermal curved-fragments
Oldowan reduction sequences
Determining Stone Tool Use
Effects of distance from stone source on landscape-scale variation in Oldowan artifact assemblages in the Paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
An experimental approach to distinguishing different stone artefact transport patterns from debitage assemblages
Middle Stone Age Technology and Cultural Evolution at Magubike Rockshelter, Southern Tanzania
Research on Late Pliocene Oldowan Sites at Kanjera South, Kenya
Flaked stones and old bones
On the Significance of Acheulean Biface Variability in Southern Britain
Seasonality and Oldowan behavioral variability in East Africa
New Oldowan locality Sare-Abururu (ca. 1.7 Ma) provides evidence of diverse hominin behaviors on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya
Technological variation in the earliest Oldowan from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia
Hominin occupations at the Dmanisi site, Georgia, Southern Caucasus
Landscape-scale variation in hominin tool use
An overview of the cognitive implications of the Oldowan Industrial Complex
Breakfast at Olorgesailie
Examining time trends in the Oldowan technology at Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge
Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia
Hominid evolution and primate social cognition
Fejej
Minutes of Fame
Archaeological predictions for hominid land use in the paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania, during lowermost Bed II times
Transport of tools and mental representation
Tool-using strategies by early hominids at Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Modeling Oldowan tool transport from a primate perspective
Old stones' song
Olduvai Gorge and the Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project
Ecological perspectives on technological diversity at Kanjera South
Hand grasping and finger flexion during Lower Paleolithic stone tool ergonomic exploration
Open-air preservation of miniaturised lithics
An Experimental Examination of the Potential Function of Early Stone Age Tool Technology and Implications for Subsistence Behavior
Handaxe enigmas
Archaeology and the Origins of Human Cumulative Culture
Human Evolution and the Archaeology of the Social Brain
The Large Cutting Tools from the South African Acheulean and the Question of Social Traditions
Why is there a lack of Mode 3 Levallois technologies in East Asia? A phylogenetic test of the Movius-Schick hypothesis
Human origins
Chimpanzees using stones to crack open oil palm nuts in Liberia
Cultural Patterns in the Olduvai Sequence
Man, Settlement and Urbanism
The earliest archaeological traces
Stone Age Sites in the Making: Experiments in the Formation and Transformation of Archaeological Occurrences
Prehistoric Blood Residues
Tool-using and -making behavior in wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea
Microwear polishes on early stone tools from Koobi Fora, Kenya
Mental map in wild chimpanzees
The Food-sharing Behavior of Protohuman Hominids
Cutmarks made by stone tools on bones from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
Hominid evolution and community ecology
Ancestors
Cultural beginnings
After the Australopithecines
The oldowan reassessed
Natural history of a tool-using behavior by wild chimpanzees in feeding upon wood-boring ants
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
Systematic Butchery by Plio/Pleistocene Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological evidence for preferential right-handedness in the lower and middle pleistocene, and its possible implications
Sex differences in the use of natural hammers by wild chimpanzees
The ant-gathering behaviour by the use of tools among wild chimpanzees of the Mahali Mountains
Tool use by wild chimpanzees in feeding upon driver ants
Tools used by wild chimpanzees to obtain termites at Mt Assirik, Senegal
The use of stone tools by wild-living chimpanzees and earliest hominids
The MNK Chert factory site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Studies of early culture in East Africa
FxJj50
Technological Innovation and Population Pressure
Organization and Formation Processes
Observations on the Butchering Technics of Some Aboriginal Peoples Numbers 7, 8, and 9
Observations on the Butchering Technique of Some Aboriginal Peoples
Scavenging or Hunting in Early Hominids
Living Archaeology
| Unique citing works | 67 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,81 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2024 (36) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |