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- The Oldowan (or Mode I) was a widespread stone tool archaeological industry during the early Lower Paleolithic spanning the late Pliocene and the first...
- split, creating an Oldowan tool, the tradition may well be far older than its current record.[citation needed] Towards the end of Oldowan in Africa the new...
- media related to Oldowan. The earliest stone tools in the era of genus Homo are Mode 1 tools, and come from what has been termed the Oldowan Industry, named...
- and female size is not definitively known. H. habilis manufactured the Oldowan stone tool industry and mainly used tools in butchering. Early Homo, compared...
- do****ented Oldowan artifact ****emblages. Archaeologists have since found older examples of the Oldowan at other sites. Still, Gona's Oldowan ****emblages...
- sharp-edged tools for cutting. The earliest Paleolithic stone tool industry, the Oldowan, began around 2.6 million years ago. It produced tools such as choppers...
- in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by Louis Leakey in the 1930s. The name Oldowan was given to the tools after the site in which they were excavated. These...
- first developed about 2 million years ago, derived from the more primitive Oldowan technology ****ociated with Homo habilis. The Acheulean includes at least...
- paleontologist Wilhelm Kattwinkel visited Olduvai Gorge, mistakenly naming it Oldowan , where he observed many fossil bones of an extinct three-toed horse. Inspired...
- thousands of years, the Achuelean eventually replaced its predecessor — the Oldowan (a chopper and flake industry) — in Africa, and spread out across Western...