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    The Oldowan (or Mode I) was a widespread stone tool archaeological industry (style) in prehistory. These early tools were simple, usually made by chipping...
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  • media related to Oldowan. The earliest stone tools in the era of genus Homo are Mode 1 tools, and come from what has been termed the Oldowan Industry, named...
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    split, creating an Oldowan tool, the tradition may well be far older than its current record.[citation needed] Towards the end of Oldowan in Africa the new...
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  • documented Oldowan artifact assemblages. Archaeologists have since found older examples of the Oldowan at other sites. Still, Gona's Oldowan assemblages...
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    in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by Louis Leakey in the 1930s. The name Oldowan was given to the tools after the site in which they were excavated. These...
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    and female size is not definitively known. H. habilis manufactured the Oldowan stone-tool industry and mainly used tools in butchering. Early Homo, compared...
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    abundance of faunal remains the Leakeys found stone tools Mary classified as Oldowan. In May 1960, at the FLK North-North site, the Leakeys' son Jonathan found...
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    first developed about 2 million years ago, derived from the more primitive Oldowan technology associated with Homo habilis. The Acheulean includes at least...
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    [better source needed] The first human settlement on Russia dates back to the Oldowan period in the early Lower Paleolithic. About 2 million years ago, representatives...
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  • domain; a protein domain Olduvai, Research Facility on Mars in the film Doom Oldowan This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Olduvai...
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    The flakes would have been used as crude knives or scrapers. Unlike the Oldowan tools, some were notched, implying that they were attached to a handle...
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    The invention of the sharp-edged Oldowan may be tied to unique biological changes in Homo. It is unclear if the Oldowan developed independently or from...
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    sharp-edged tools for cutting. The earliest Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Oldowan, began around 2.6 million years ago. It produced tools such as choppers...
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    current archaeological record, until around 300,000 years ago, spanning the Oldowan ("mode 1") and Acheulean ("mode 2") lithics industries. In African archaeology...
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    late Early Pleistocene, around 1 mya. Often at these sites tools from the Oldowan industry are present. At Kilombe and Buia, it is unclear whether the hippos...
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    changes. Arabia has a rich Lower Paleolithic record, and the quantity of Oldowan-like sites in the region indicate a significant role that Arabia had played...
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  • ISBN 9784431545118. Semaw, S; Rogers, M; Stout, D (2009). "Oldowan–Acheulian transition: Is there a Developed Oldowan artifact tradition?". In Camps, M; Chauhan, P...
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    it was thought that the tools might have been part of a so-called pre-Oldowan industry, even more primitive than what was found in the Olduvai Gorge...
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  • contemporaneous Oldowan site is documented at Garba IV. The magneto-stratigraphic sequence of Jaramillo lies between Tuff A, which overlies the Oldowan sites,...
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    Homo has been taken to coincide with the first use of stone tools (the Oldowan industry), and thus by definition with the beginning of the Lower Palaeolithic...
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    -Selassie Y (June 1994). "African Homo erectus: old radiometric ages and young Oldowan assemblages in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia". Science. 264 (5167):...
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    which refers to dragon's blood. There was initially an Oldowan lithic culture in Socotra. Oldowan stone tools were found in the area around Hadibo in 2008...
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    The country has remained relatively stable since then. The presence of Oldowan artifacts in West Africa was confirmed by Michael Omolewa, attesting to...
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    Homo erectus, some 1.8 million years ago, replacing the more primitive Oldowan industry used by A. garhi and by the earliest species of Homo. The Middle...
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  • Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest toolmaking Oldowan Acheulean Mousterian Aurignacian Clovis culture Cupstone Fire hardening...
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    000 years ago. The earliest methods of stone tool making, known as the Oldowan "industry", date back to at least 2.3 million years ago, with the earliest...
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    Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest toolmaking Oldowan Acheulean Mousterian Aurignacian Clovis culture Cupstone Fire hardening...
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    Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest toolmaking Oldowan Acheulean Mousterian Aurignacian Clovis culture Cupstone Fire hardening...
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    than gracile australopithecines. P. boisei may have been able to make Oldowan stone tools and butcher carcasses. P. boisei mainly inhabited wet, wooded...
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