El estudio funcional lítico en la Early Stone Age (ESA) africana. Aplicación analítica, metodológica y experimental en los yacimientos arqueológicos del Lecho II de la Garganta de Olduvai, Tanzania

The evolution of stone tool technology at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): Contributions from the Olduvai Paleoanthropology and Paleoecology Project

“…FLK West is a multicomponent site with six archaeological levels deposited within the corresponding fluvial events mentioned above. The information already published is the result of the first phase of fieldwork that, between 2012 and 2015, focused on an area of 17 m 2 (Diez-Martı ´n et al, , 2019Sa ´nchez-Yustos et al, 2017, 2018Sistiaga et al, 2020;Uribelarrea et al, 2017Uribelarrea et al, , 2019. A second phase of research is currently devoted to the excavation of an extra area of 100 m 2 , where archaeological work in progress is tacking levels 1 to 3.…”

The first comprehensive micro use-wear analysis of an early Acheulean assemblage (Thiongo Korongo, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

“…These studies have additionally tried to overcome the rather simplistic idea that ESA tools were used exclusively for the processing of animal carcasses (Jones, 1980(Jones, , 1981(Jones, , 1994Schick and Toth, 1993;Mitchell, 1996). Under this premise, in addition to the processing of animal and wood resources, a wide range of materials including herbaceous, under storage organs (USOs), nuts, and canes (Lemorini et al, 2014(Lemorini et al, , 2019de Francisco, 2019). The development of other hypothetical activities in sites is based on previous traceological results ( Keeley and Toth, 1981;Sussman, 1987;Keeley, 1997), as well as information obtained from other sources of information such as ethnography, diet reconstruction, ecology, paleo-environment, residue analy sis and/or technology, all of them supporting that these early hominins have rather complex economic interactions with their landscapes and the array of resources found on them (Mercader et al 2002(Mercader et al , 2009(Mercader et al , 2009Marlowe and Berbesque, 2009;Jones, 1994;Lee-Thorp et al 1994, 2012, 2012Domínguez-Rodrigo et al, 2001;Herrygers, 2002;Cerling et al, 2011;Magill et al 2013;Plummer and Bioshop, 2016).…”