Paleoecology and hominin behavior during Bed I at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
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The evolution of hominin behavior during the OldowaneAcheulean transition: Recent evidence from Olduvai Gorge and Peninj (Tanzania)
The emergence of human behavior, understood as a distinct adaptive pattern among primates, which created a material record in the form of archaeological sites, has been widely studied during the Oldowan phase of human evolution. Behavior, as a crucial part of adaptation, is tightly linked to ecology. The Olduvai Paleoecology and Paleoanthropology Project (TOPPP) stressed the importance of study...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quaternary Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0033-5894,1096-0287
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.07.016