2.5-million-year-old stone tools from Gona, Ethiopia

1997/01/01 by Sileshi Semaw, S. Semaw, P. Renne +10 · 4 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Archaeology and Rock Art Studies #Art #Geography #Geology #Lithic technology #Olduvai Gorge #Paleoanthropology #Paleontology #Period (music) #Pleistocene #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Sequence (biology) #Stone Age #Stone tool #Stratigraphy #Tanzania #Tectonics

paper · doi:10.1038/385333a0

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Citations

• The oldowan reassessed: A close look at early stone artifacts
• The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula
• 2.5-Myr Australopithecus boisei from west of Lake Turkana, Kenya

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