Ecological Perspectives on Hominin Landscape Use during the Early Stone Age of Africa
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
It is increasingly clear that Africa's Early Stone Age (ESA) sites sample a diversity of behaviors and no one model is sufficient to explain every collection of archaeological debris. Behavioral flexibility was thus probably a key component of hominin adaptations, and the goal of this symposium is to identify the ecological parameters, or affordances (resources and hazards), that conditioned where, when, and how hominins chose to concentrate their archaeologically visible behaviors across Africa's ESA landscapes. Papers in this session have a strong ecological focus and will contribute to an integrated examination of ESA hominin landscape use in Africa from faunal, lithic, paleobotanical, isotopic, and/or geological perspectives.
Other Keywords
Early Stone Age •
Geoarchaeology •
Lithics •
Sedimentology •
Taphonomy •
Geochemistry •
East Africa •
Landscape Archaeology •
Isotope chemistry •
carnivory
Geographic Keywords
Republic of Botswana (Country) •
Republic of Namibia (Country) •
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Country) •
Republic of Iraq (Country) •
State of Israel (Country) •
Republic of South Africa (Country) •
Lebanese Republic (Country) •
Syrian Arab Republic (Country) •
West Bank (Country) •
Republic of Kenya (Country)
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- Documents (5)
- Acheulean Hominin Ecology: Organic Residue on Lithics as Evidence of Plant Processing (2017)
- Behavioral Inferences from Early Stone Age Sites: A View from the Koobi Fora Formation (2017)
- Early Stone Age hominin habitat preferences: predictions from a modern taphonomic and ecological study in Kenya (2017)
- Paleoecological Assessment of the Douglas Korongo East and Bell's Korongo East Sites, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2017)
- Patterns of Hominin Land Use and Raw Material Procurement in the Paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania (2017)