Reading Pliocene Bones.
In: Science, Jg. 336 (2012-04-06), Heft 6077, S. 46-47
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In this article the author explores how the establishment of standardized criteria will help paleontologists reliably distinguish marks made by hominid tools from feeding traces of other animals. The author notes that flaked stone tools and cut-marked bones are the first traces of tool-making behavior in humans, but that the interpretation of bone modifications is complicated by similar traces by carnivorous animals. Topics include a brief overview of the earliest evidence of tool-making technology, termed Oldowan, and associated butchered bones in Gona, Ethiopia, microscopic criteria used to distinguish hominid-induced marks from mammalian carnivore tooth marks, and a diagram illustrating the interpretation of bone modifications.
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Reading Pliocene Bones.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Njau, Jackson |
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Zeitschrift: | Science, Jg. 336 (2012-04-06), Heft 6077, S. 46-47 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2012 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0036-8075 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1126/science.1216221 |
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