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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Olduvai Gorge"”.
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Diagnosing Bone Fracture to Assess Early Hominin Behaviour, Meat-Eating, and Socioecology at FLK-Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
… as a carnivore accumulation, FLK-NN2 (Olduvai Gorge), and d) the zooarchaeological assemblage from FLK-Zinj, (Olduvai Gorge). This is the first zooarchaeological/taphonomic study to demonstrate that a) static and impact fracture differ fundamentally in applied load size and material …
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A taphonomic investigation of aquatic reptiles (Crocodylus, Trionyx, and Pelusios) at Lake Turkana, Kenya: Significance for early hominid ecology at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
… turtles are well represented at a number of the Olduvai archaeological sites, although the nature of their association with the lithic artifacts and the other faunal materials has never been investigated using taphonomic methodology. This thesis presents the results of an investigation of the …
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Early hominid habitat preferences in East Africa: Stable isotopic evidence from paleosols
… with landscape archaeology projects at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and Olorgesailie (Kenya), the stable carbon isotopic composition of paleosol (buried soil) organic matter and pedogenic carbonate is used in this thesis to estimate the original proportion of tropical grasses (C$\sb4$ …
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Later Quaternary archaeological sequences in northern Tanzania
… at two deep-stratified rock shelters near Olduvai Gorge in order to ascertain the post-Acheulean archaeological sequence for the area. Shelter sequences document segments of time during the past 150,000 years and allow a new appreciation of the age and cultural associations of archaic Homo …
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FROM EAST TO NORTH-WEST AFRICA: MAGNETOCHRONOLOGY OF THE OLDEST AFRICAN ACHEULEAN SITES
… Ethiopia), FLK West (~1.7-1.65 Ma; Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). The new magnetostratigraphic results obtained from Melka Kunture archeological area of Ethiopia pushed back the first occurrence of the Acheulean at 1.95 (-0.025; +0.1) Ma, some 200 ka before what previously known, and it …
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Estudio traceológico de la industria lítica achelense de Thiongo Korongo (Garganta de Olduvai, Tanzania): aproximación experimental y arqueológica a la gestión económica a partir del análisis de filos
… Korongo (TK) (1,353±0,35 Ma) (Garganta de Olduvai, Tanzania). Este estudio se ha realizado a partir de las herramientas que presentan zonas con filos activos y que pertenecen a los tres niveles con mayor actividad antrópica en el yacimiento: Thiongo Korongo Lower Floor (TKLF), Thiongo …