The Oldowan (or Mode I) was a widespread stone tool archaeological industry in prehistory. These early tools were simple, usually made by chipping one, or a few, flakes off a stone using another stone.

2020年7月13日 · The appearance of simple stone tools, widely known as Oldowan tools or the Oldowan industry, marked the beginning of our technological revolution. To our knowledge, these artifacts appeared around 2.6 million years ago in the savannahs of Eastern Africa .

The Oldowan is the oldest-known stone tool industry. Dating as far back as 2.5 million years ago, these tools are a major milestone in human evolutionary history: the earliest evidence of cultural behavior.

2024年1月3日 · The oldest stone tools, known as the Oldowan toolkit, consist of at least: Hammerstones that show battering on their surfaces; Stone cores that show a series of flake scars along one or more edges; Sharp stone flakes that were struck from the cores and offer useful cutting edges, along with lots of debris from the process of percussion flaking

Oldowan industry, toolmaking tradition characterized by crudely worked pebble (chopping) tools from the early Paleolithic, dating to about 2 million years ago and not formed after a standardized pattern. The tools are made of pebbles of quartz, quartzite, …

2019年5月30日 · The Oldowan Tradition (also called Oldowan Industrial Tradition or Mode 1 as described by Grahame Clarke) is the name given to a pattern of stone-tool making by our hominid ancestors, developed in Africa by about 2.6 million years ago (mya) by our hominin ancestor Homo habilis (probably), and used there until 1.5 mya (mya).

2024年1月3日 · The Oldowan culture represents a cornerstone in the story of human evolution. By examining these ancient stone tools, we gain invaluable insights into the cognitive leaps and social dynamics of our predecessors.

Since the oldest Oldowan tools date to 2.5 million years ago, close to the origin point of early Homo and the first evidence for brain expansion, paleoanthropologists thought for many years that these illustrated an evolutionary link—tools and meat and brains! But does it?

Oldowan stone tools, first discovered in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, persist for over a million years and have been found at later hominin fossil sites outside of Africa. These stone tools, particularly the flakes, would have been crucial in allowing hominins to access meat by helping to remove flesh from carcasses much more easily.

Deliberate, fully-controlled stone-flaking emerges with the Oldowan Industry by ca. 2.6 million years ago. The famous palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey named the industry after the earliest stone tools excavated from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania from the 1930s to the 1960s.