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The Application of Elliptic Fourier Analysis in Understanding Biface Shape and Symmetry Through the British Acheulean
Acheulean biface shape and symmetry have fuelled many discussions on past hominin behaviour in regards to the ‘meaning’ of biface technology....
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Sitwe 23, a Complex ESA/MSA Locality in the Northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia
This paper describes the lithic aggregates from Sitwe 23 (SW23), a Stone Age locality in a previously unstudied region of the northern Luangwa...
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Animate Stone: Maya Chert ‘Debitage’ and Ontological Perspectives
Ethnographic and ethnohistoric research concerning Maya conceptions of stone illustrate that the Maya consider stone animate. In archaeology,...
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The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knap**, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre
Archaeological palimpsests are depositional units where the remains of various human occupations have been mixed for hundreds to hundreds of...
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Break to Rebuild — the First European Evidence of a Fragmented Chaine Opératoire for Handaxe Production (OIS 14, Caune de l’Arago, France)
The presence of bifacial tools for more than 1.5 Ma in African and Eurasian archaeological assemblages raises questions as to why this was so...
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La Noira Site (Centre, France) and the Technological Behaviours and Skills of the Earliest Acheulean in Western Europe Between 700 and 600 ka
New fieldwork and the revision of lithic collections during the past decade have renewed our interpretation of the timing and characteristics of the...
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Buia, Eritrea
The Buia study area is in the Dandiero basin (the northernmost part of the Eritrean Danakil depression) and is named after the Buia village situated...
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Biface Knap** Skill in the East African Acheulean: Progressive Trends and Random Walks
Over the 1.5-million-year duration of the Acheulean, there is considerable variation in biface finesse. It is not clear, however, if there is an...
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Pleistocene Archaeology of the Republic of Djibouti
The Republic of Djibouti (Formerly known as French Somaliland and the French Territory of Afars and Issas) lies at the nexus of important geological,...
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Kesem-Kebena-Dulecha Study Area, Ethiopia
In 1988 and 1989, the Paleoanthropological Inventory of Ethiopia (PIE) field expedition discovered numerous localities of prehistoric significance...
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The Pleistocene Stone Artifact Record of Africa: Technologies, Typologies, and Analytic Approaches
Flaked stone (lithic) artifacts are a ubiquitous cultural material at Pleistocene sites and first appear in the archaeological record 3.3 million...
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Wonderwerk Cave and the Kathu Complex, South Africa
The Kalahari has a powerful hold on the collective imagination as an environment of extreme aridity where survival is a challenge. However, the...
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Predetermined Refinement: the Earliest Levallois of the Kapthurin Formation
Levallois technology characterizes the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic, but one of its earliest manifestations is from the preceding Acheulean...
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Kilombe Volcano, Kenya
Kilombe is an extinct volcano lying on the western flank of the Rift Valley in Kenya, immediately south of the Equator. Over the period it has been...
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Melka Wakena, Ethiopia
The Melka Wakena site complex is one of the few Acheulian-bearing sites documented in the high elevation setting in eastern Africa. It consists of...
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Mount Dendi (DEN12-A02), Ethiopia
The DEN12-A02 site is situated at an altitude of 3000 meters above sea level (asl) on Mount Dendi in the western central highland of Ethiopia (Fig....
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Post-marital Residence Patterns in the Late Archaic Coastal Southeast USA: Similarities in Stone Tools Revealed by Geometric Morphometrics
Analyses of hafted biface shape using geometric morphometrics reveals similarities between assemblages recovered from two contemporaneous settlements...
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Soft-Hammer Percussion During the Acheulean: Barking Up the Wrong Tree of Technical Change?
Lithic productions are the main source of information on human groups from early periods of the Palaeolithic. From the time of the first discoveries,...
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Uitdraai 33, South Africa
Uitdraai 33 (29.56° S, 22.86° E; Figs. 1 and 2) is located 16 km from the town of Prieska in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. This site was...
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Khor Shambat 2, Sudan
Khor Shambat (Omdurman, Sudan) bearing Acheulean material, is situated on the left-bank Nile valley a few km north of Khor Abu Anga and about 7 km...