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STONETOOLSANDFOSSILBONES Thestonetoolsandfossilbonesfromtheearliestarchaeologicalsites inAfricahavebeenusedoverthepastfiftyyearstocreatemodelsthat interprethowearlyhomininslived,foraged,behaved,andcommuni- cated, and how early and modern humans evolved. In this book, an internationalteamofarchaeologistsandprimatologistsexaminesearly StoneAgetoolsandbonesandusesscientificmethodstotestalternative hypothesesthatexplainthearchaeologicalrecord.Byfocusingonboth lithicsandfaunalrecords,thisvolumepresentsthemostholisticview todateofthearchaeologyofhumanorigins. ManuelDom´ınguez-RodrigoisCo-DirectoroftheInstituteofEvolu- tioninAfrica,basedinMadrid,Spain,andProfessorintheDepartment ofPrehistoryattheComplutenseUniversity,Madrid.Heistheauthor of Deconstructing Olduvai and Peninj: A Research Project on Human Origins.Currently,heisCo-DirectoroftheOlduvaiPaleoanthropology andPaleoecologyProject(TOPPP)atOlduvaiGorge,Tanzania. Stone Tools and Fossil Bones Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins Editedby manuel dom´ınguez-rodrigo ComplutenseUniversity,Madrid cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107022928 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2012 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dom´ınguez-Rodrigo,Manuel. Stonetoolsandfossilbones:debatesinthearchaeologyofhumanorigins/Manuel Dom´ınguez-Rodrigo. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-02292-8(hardback) 1.Tools,Prehistoric. 2.Humanevolution. 3.Socialevolution. 4.Fossilhominids. 5.Humanremains(Archaeology) 6.Animalremains(Archaeology) I.Title. gn799.t6d65 2012 930.1–dc23 2011041172 isbn978-1-107-02292-8Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurls forexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublicationanddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ToMary,Gabriel,andLiamforeverythingtheyhavegivenme Contents Tables pageix Figures xi Contributors xiii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 Towardascientific-realistictheoryontheoriginofhuman behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 ManuelDomı´nguez-Rodrigo parti. ontheuseofanalogyi:theearliestmeateaters 2 Conceptualpremisesinexperimentaldesignandtheirbearingon theuseofanalogy:Acriticalexamplefromexperimentsoncut marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 ManuelDomı´nguez-Rodrigo 3 Theuseofbonesurfacemodificationstomodelhominidlifeways duringtheOldowan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 CharlesP.Egeland 4 Onearlyhomininmeateatingandcarcassacquisitionstrategies: Stillrelevantafteralltheseyears?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115 KarenD.Lupo 5 MeatforagingbyPleistoceneAfricanhominins:Tracking behavioralevolutionbeyondbaselineinferencesofearly accesstocarcasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 TravisRaynePickeringandHenryT.Bunn vii viii Contents 6 Canweusechimpanzeebehaviortomodelearlyhominin hunting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 TravisRaynePickeringandManuelDomı´nguez-Rodrigo partii. ontheuseofanalogyii:theearlieststonetoolmakers 7 TheoriginsoftheOldowan:Whychimpanzees(Pantroglodytes) stillaregoodmodelsfortechnologicalevolutioninAfrica. . . . .201 SusanaCarvalhoandWilliamMcGrew 8 WhatdoesOldowantechnologyrepresentintermsofhominin behavior? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 DavidR.Braun 9 TestingcognitiveskillsinEarlyPleistocenehominins:Ananalysis oftheconceptsofhierarchizationandpredeterminationin thelithicassemblagesofTypeSection(Peninj,Tanzania).. . . .245 FernandoDiez-Martı´n,FelipeCuartero,PolicarpoSa´nchezYustos, JavierBaena,DanielRubio,andManuelDomı´nguez-Rodrigo 10 TheEarlyAcheuleaninAfrica:Pastparadigms,currentideas, andfuturedirections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 FernandoDiez-Martı´nandMetinI.Eren Index 359

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