Stone Tools and Fossil Bones

Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo is Co-director at the Institute of Evolution in Africa, based in Madrid, Spain, and Professor in the Department of Prehistory at the Complutense University, Madrid. He is the author of Deconstructing Olduvai and Peninj: A Research Project on Human Origins. He currently is Co-director of the Olduvai Paleoanthropology and Paleoecology project (TOPPP) at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

International archaeologists examine early Stone Age tools and bones to present the most holistic view to date of the archaeology of human origins.

1. Towards a scientific-realistic theory on the origin of human behavior Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo; Part I. On the Use of Analogy I: The Earliest Meat-Eaters: 2. Conceptual premises in experimental design and their bearing on the use of analogy: a critical example from experiments on cut marks Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo; 3. The use of bone surface modifications to model hominid lifeways during the Oldowan Charles P. Egeland; 4. On early hominin meat-eating and carcass acquisition strategies: still relevant after all these years? Karen D. Lupo; 5. Meat-foraging by Pleistocene African hominins: tracking behavioral evolution beyond baseline inferences of early access to carcasses Travis Rayne Pickering and Henry T. Bunn; 6. Can we use chimpanzee behavior to model early hominin hunting? Travis Rayne Pickering and Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo; Part II. On the Use of Analogy II: The Earliest Stone Tool Makers: 7. The origins of the Oldowan: why are chimpanzees (pan troglodytes) still good models for the technological evolution in Africa? Susana Carvalho and William McGrew; 8. What does Oldowan technology represent in terms of hominin behavior? David R. Braun; 9. Testing cognitive skills in early Pleistocene hominins: an analysis of the concepts of hierarchization and predetermination in the lithic assemblages of type section (Peninj, Tanzania) Fernando Diez-Martín, Policarpo Sánchez Yustos, Javier Baena, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo and Daniel Rubio; 10. The early Acheulean in Africa: past paradigms, current ideas, and future directions Fernando Diez-Martin and Metin I. Eren.