What Do Lithics Tell Us About How Pleistocene Hominins Survived?

John J Shea

doi:10.1111/arcm.70056

What Do Lithics Tell Us About How Pleistocene Hominins Survived?

John J Shea

Anthropology

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Abstract

Hominin fossils and lithic evidence can, considered together, shed light on major changes in hominin evolution. Correlated changes in hominin fossil and lithic evidence appear at three major inflection points, ca. 3.4, 1.7, and 0.3 Ma. These inflection points mark evolutionarily consequential changes in hominin survival strategies.

Original language	English
Journal	Archaeometry
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70056
State	Accepted/In press - 2025

Keywords

hominins
Pleistocene
survival archaeology

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10.1111/arcm.70056

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abstract = "Hominin fossils and lithic evidence can, considered together, shed light on major changes in hominin evolution. Correlated changes in hominin fossil and lithic evidence appear at three major inflection points, ca. 3.4, 1.7, and 0.3 Ma. These inflection points mark evolutionarily consequential changes in hominin survival strategies.",

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