🪨 Early Oldowan tech thrived during Pliocene environmental change in Kenya’s Turkana Basin.
#ICArEHB researchers Jonathan S. Reeves, René Bobe & Susana Carvalho with D. R. Braun et al. in Nature Communications: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41188262/
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Nyayanga, Kenya (3.03–2.59 Ma): Oldowan cores, flakes & percussors used to butcher hippos. Nearby Paranthropus teeth complicate who made them—maybe multiple makers. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Oldowan
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Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya - Nature Communications Here, the authors present archaeology of the Namorotukunan site in Kenya’s Turkana Basin that demonstrates adaptive shifts in hominin tool-making behaviour spanning 300,000 years and increasing enviro...

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10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world https://arstechni.ca #australopithecus #paleoarchaeology #Archaeology #stonetools #hominins #Science #oldowan #science

Oldowan Stone Tools from the Turkana Basin Analyzed WASHINGTON, D.C.—According to a statement released by George Washington University, a collection of Oldowan stone […] The post Oldowan Stone Tools from the Turkana Basin Analyzed appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.

The Tools That Outlasted a World in Flux A 2.75-million-year-old stone tool record from Kenya reshapes our sense of innovation, resilience, and early human adaptability

New evidence from Kenya shows early Oldowan stone tools remained stable for nearly 300,000 years despite intense climate shifts. Early hominins relied on craft and continuity long before rapid innovation arrived. #archaeology #Oldowan #paleoanthropology #TurkanaBasin #anthropology

One of the earliest #hominin entries into #Europe! arliest footsteps to Europe. Korolevo (Ukraine): Mode-1 core-and-flake tools in hyalodacite; cosmogenic ^26Al/^10Be burial age 1.42 ± 0.10 Ma; Danube corridor dispersal plausible. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Oldowan #Korolevo doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Hands built for work. KNM-ER 101000 (Koobi Fora, ~1.52 Ma) links P. boisei teeth/skull with hand & foot bones—long thumb, human-like proportions; strong precision + power grips. Anatomy fits stone-tool use, though behavior’s unproven. #PaleoPost #Paranthropus #Oldowan doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Flakes before fame. Nyayanga, Kenya (3.03–2.60 Ma) pushes Oldowan to ~3.0 Ma. Tools butchered hippos & pounded plants; two Paranthropus molars hint more than Homo was involved. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Oldowan doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest #Oldowan toolmakers

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Before Homo habilis came to the party, the tools were already waiting. 🪨
While often credited as the first toolmaker, evidence hints stone tools may predate H. habilis—suggesting even earlier hands were striking stone.
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Four Oldowan tools sitting on a dirt floor. Oldowan tools may look simple, but as a recent study shows, their origins are anything but straightforward. Image credit: The Natural History Museum, London / Science Source.

#HumanAncestors may not be responsible for the famous #Oldowan #StoneTools. In PNAS Journal Club: www.pnas.org/post/journal...

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Handaxe of the week. Surface find, Olorgesailie, Kenya, 1956. Found by Louis Leakey and given by him to Peter Ellis, friend of his son, Richard.

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Researchers Unearth 3-Million-Year-Old Tools The discoveries push back the date of one of humans’ earliest technological advances.

Yikes! I can’t believe I missed this. Archaeologists found stone tools in Kenya nearly 3 million years old, pushing Oldowan tech origins back 400k years! Found with butchered hippo bones, they reveal early hominins processed meat & plants. 🦴🪨 #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Oldowan #Prehistory #Kenya

(PDF) A commentary on Sterelny and Hiscock's "Cumulative culture, archaeology, and the Zone of Latent Solutions" in Current Anthropology: "Reinforcing a Zone of Latent Solution (ZLS) Account of the Ol... PDF | Sterelny and Hiscock (2024) accept the zone of latent solutions account (Tennie et al. 2009, 2020) as the currently best explanation for ape... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

My comment on Sterelny and Hiscock "Cumulative culture, archaeology, and the Zone of Latent Solutions" (2024) in Current Anthropology

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David R. Braun et al., Earliest known #Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from #LediGeraru, #Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity, @PNASNews June 3, 2019.

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Prehistoric humans invented #tools on multiple occasions, according a study of 327 #Oldowan stone tools carved more than 2.6 million years ago found in...