Dedication .................................................... iii
Contributors .................................................... v
Table of Contents ............................................. vii
Preface ........................................................ ix
Part I: The Archaeological Evidence ............................. 1
Chapter 1: An Overview of the Oldowan Industrial Complex:
The sites and the nature of their evidence
Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth ...................... 3
Chapter 2: The Oldest Stone Artifacts from Gona (2.6-2.5 Ma),
Afar, Ethiopia: Implications for understanding the
earliest stages of stone knapping
Sileshi Semaw ...................................... 43
Chapter 3: The North African Early Stone Age and the Sites
at Ain Hanech, Algeria
Mohamed Sahnouni ................................... 77
Chapter 4: The Acquisition and Use of Large Mammal
Carcasses by Oldowan Hominins in Eastern and
Southern Africa: A Selected Review and Assessment
Travis Rayne Pickering and Manuel Domínguez-
Rodrigo ........................................... 113
Chapter 5: After the African Oldowan: The Earliest
Technologies of Europe
Fernando Diez-Martín .............................. 129
Part II: Actualistic Approaches to the Earliest Stone Age ..... 153
Chapter 6: A Comparative Study of the Stone Tool-making
Skills Pan, Australopithecus, and Homo sapiens
Nicholas Toth, Kathy Schick, and Sileshi Semaw .... 155
Chapter 7: Rules and Tools: Beyond Anthropomorphism
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and William Mintz Fields ...... 223
Chapter 8: Sex Differences in Chimpanzee Foraging Behavior
and Tool Use: Implications for the Oldowan
Kevin Hunt ........................................ 243
Chapter 9: Oldowan Toolmaking and Hominin Brain Evolution:
Theory and research using positron emission
tomography (PET)
Dietrich Stout .................................... 267
Chapter 10: Knapping Skill of the Earliest Stone Toolmakers:
Insights from the study of modern human novices
Dietrich Stout and Sileshi Semaw .................. 307
Chapter 11: Comparing the Neural Foundations of Oldowan and
Acheulean Toolmaking: A pilot study using
positron emission tomography (PET)
Dietrich Stout, Nicholas Toth, and Kathy Schick ... 321
Chapter 12: The Biomechanics of the Arm Swing in Oldowan
Stone Flaking
Jesus Dapena, William J. Anderst, and Nicholas
P. Toth ........................................... 333
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