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The Oldowan (or Mode I) was a widespread stone tool archaeological industry (style) in prehistory.These early tools were simple, usually made by chipping one, or a few, flakes off a stone using another stone.
Choppers are not solely limited to a single area on Earth: As mentioned earlier, Africa is known to have supplied the earliest known choppers, specifically known as the Oldowan. Many countries have given sites containing many of these stone tools, including Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa.
The brains of the hominins who used Oldowan stone tools were a lot smaller than the brains of modern humans. [9] There is debate about the Oldowan Industry's place in human culture's evolution. [9] [30] This debate features some of Gona's Oldowan assemblages as evidence and pulls from research on primate social behavior. [23] [9] [31] [32] [33]
Lomekwi is an archaeological site located on the west bank of Turkana Lake in Kenya.It is an important milestone in the history of human archaeology. An archaeological team from Stony Brook University in the United States discovered traces of Lomekwi by chance in July 2011, and made substantial progress four years after in-depth excavations.
Stone tools Oldowan stone tools. May very well be earliest evidence of seafaring. Kozarnika, Dimovo Municipality [48] 1.4-1.6 Bulgaria Eastern Europe H. erectus (associated) Stone tools, hominin remains, cut marks on bone Pirro Nord [49] 1.3-1.6 [50] Italy Western Europe Stone tools Sterkfontein Member 5 [51] 1.1-1.6 South Africa Southern Africa
Stone tools on display. The lithic industry assemblage found at the site is from the Oldowan, [4] and consists of more than 1000 artefacts (including waste flakes). Spiral or helical fractures, impact points, flake scars, and bone flakes were discovered on megafaunal remains and are associated with the tools.
The Lower Paleolithic (or Lower Palaeolithic) is the earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.It spans the time from around 3.3 million years ago when the first evidence for stone tool production and use by hominins appears in the current archaeological record, [1] until around 300,000 years ago, spanning the Oldowan ("mode 1") and Acheulean ("mode 2") lithics industries.
Harris and Bishop separate the materials found into three main categories. Tools from the Developed Oldowan industry have been found in the Chemoigut Formation. The surface of the Chesowanja Formation is known for its Acheulian industry. And lastly, the Mukutan Beds were home to later stone industry tools, obsidian tools, and pottery.