@inbook{e8044ce25c6242eb8297ab74c7273c51,
title = "Stone Age Visiting Cards Revisited: A Strategic Perspective on the Lithic Technology of Early Hominin Dispersal",
abstract = "This paper examines the stone tool technology of dispersing Plio-Pleistocene hominins. The traditional division of Early Paleolithic assemblages into Oldowan, Developed Oldowan, Early Acheulean, and related industries obscures a more fundamental axis of strategic variation between pebble-core and large cutting tool technology. In Eurasia, as in Africa before it, first appearances of fossils of the genus Homo occur together with “Oldowan” pebble-core technology. Acheulean assemblages featuring large symmetrical cores/cutting tools, if they appear at all, do so after a considerable period of time. The patterning of the Early Paleolithic industrial variability may reflect a strategic shift between an initial “frontier” phase and a subsequent “settling in” phase of hominin dispersal.",
keywords = "Acheulean, Early Paleolithic, Hominin dispersal, Oldowan, Stone tools, Strategic modeling",
author = "Shea, \{John J.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2010, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/978-90-481-9036-2\_4",
language = "English",
series = "Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "9789048190355",
pages = "47--64",
booktitle = "Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology",
edition = "9789048190355",
}