Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : current issues in Oldowan research / David R. Braun and Erella Hovers
  • Remarks on the current theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of early technological strategies in eastern Africa / Ignacio de la Torre and Rafael Mora
  • From homogeneity to multiplicity : a new approach to the study of archaic stone tools / Eudald Carbonell ... [et al.]
  • An overview of some African and Eurasian Oldowan sites : evaluation of hominin cognitive levels, technological advancement and adaptive skills / Deborah Barsky
  • Early Homo occupation near the Gate of Tears : examining the paleoanthropological records of Djibouti and Yemen / Parth R. Chauhan
  • Homo floresiensis and the African Oldowan / Mark W. Moore and Adam R. Brumm
  • Methodological issues in the study of Oldowan raw material selectivity : insights from A.L. 894 (Hadar, Ethiopia) / Talia Goldman-Neuman and Erella Hovers
  • Variability in raw material selectivity at the late Pliocene sites of Lokalalei, West Turkana, Kenya / Sonia Harmand
  • Oldowan technology and raw material variability at Kanjera South / David R. Braun ... [et al.]
  • Obsidian exploitation and utilization during the Oldowan at Melka Kunture (Ethiopia) / Marcello Piperno ... [et al.]
  • Are all Oldowan sites palimpsests? : if so, what can they tell us about hominin carnivory? / Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
  • The environmental context of Oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Kenya / Thomas W. Plummer ... [et al.].