The earliest stone tools: their implications for an understanding of the activities and behaviour of late Pliocene hominids

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This chapter gives a preliminary review of new findings from older archaeological occurrences as evidence for the movements and activities of tool-using hominids dating from the late Pliocene between approximately 2.5 and 2 million years ago. These significantly earlier occurrences are also attributed to the Oldowan Industrial Complex principally because the typological composition of artefact assemblages consists of simple cores and unmodified flaking debris. The chapter shows that by grouping all the archaeological occurrences between 2.5 and 1.5 million years ago within one cultural entity, the Oldowan Industrial Complex, important evidence may be masked for changing patterns of early hominid ranging and foraging. Archaeological remains from the Plio-Pleistocene are also particularly relevant for understanding the evolutionary development of distinctive hominid behavioural patterns.

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