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- adjective Of or relating to an early stage of African Paleolithic tool culture characterized by choppers and bifacial chopping tools.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The style of stone tools called the Oldowan appeared 2.5 million years ago and stayed unchanged for more than a million years.
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The rocks, most of them about the size of melons, clearly resemble the deliberately crafted choppers and hammers typical of the earliest Stone Age tools known to anthropologists as the Oldowan technology, Mercader said.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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By excavating an abandoned nut-cracking area, Mercader was able to compare the chimps 'accidentally produced flakes with Oldowan flakes produced by hominins.
Cultured Cousins? 2007
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"When we find hammer stones in the Oldowan we can guess what they were used for or we can look at chimps and what they use them for to give us some ideas, to help us interpret what we find," says McGrew.
Cultured Cousins? 2007
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What is the ID hypothesis that accounts for technological innovation beginning with the Oldowan?
More on Casey Luskin and the Dikika Hominid Christopher O'Brien 2006
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What is the ID hypothesis that accounts for technological innovation beginning with the Oldowan?
Archive 2006-09-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006
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Archaeologist Nicholas Toth has replicated the simple Oldowan (named after Olduvai Gorge) stone technology used by Homo habilis so thoroughly that he has even been able to show that some of the toolmakers were left-handed.
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Known as Oldowan, the tool type has been found at other East African sites: Omo in southern Ethiopia, Lokalalei in northern Kenya, and Hadar, five miles east of the Gona River study area.
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Louis called this the “Oldowan culture,” and although he did not then realize it, the crudely flaked pieces of lava represented the oldest stone tools in the world.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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For example, it seemed that they used Acheulean handaxes only along streams, and the Developed Oldowan tools by the lakeshore; or perhaps, these people had separate sites for activities that required either handaxes or Developed Oldowan tools.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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