Emma M Finestone, Thomas W Plummer, Thomas H Vincent, Scott A Blumenthal, Peter W Ditchfield, Laura C Bishop, James S Oliver, Andy I R Herries, Christopher Vere Palfery, Timothy P Lane, Elizabeth McGuire, Jonathan S Reeves, Angel Rodés, Elizabeth Whitfield, David R Braun, Simion K Bartilol, Nelson Kiprono Rotich, Jennifer A Parkinson, Cristina Lemorini, Isabella Caricola, Rahab N Kinyanjui, Richard Potts
The Homa Peninsula, in southwestern Kenya, continues to yield insights into Oldowan hominin landscape behaviors. The Late Pliocene locality of Nyayanga (∼3-2.6 Ma) preserves some of the oldest Oldowan tools. At the Early Pleistocene locality of Kanjera South (∼2 Ma) toolmakers procured a diversity of raw materials from over 10 km away and strategically reduced them in a grassland-dominated ecosystem. Here, we report findings from Sare-Abururu, a younger (∼1.7 Ma) Oldowan locality approximately 12 km southeast of Kanjera South and 18 km east of Nyayanga...
April 5, 2024: Journal of Human Evolution