The MNK Chert Factory Site: The Chert-Using Strategy by Early Hominids at Olduvai Gorge,Tanzania

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• This paper presents a full report of the MNK chert factory site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. The site has been dated to 1.6 mya, and is the oldest factory site acknowledged to date. The study examines the inter-site variation in the reduction stage of chert artifacts between the factory site and its contemporaneous sites from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge. The analysis demonstrates the systematic pattern of raw material selection, the earliest reduction stage of chert nodules, and the transport of partially flaked cores away from the factory site. It also reveals that the later part of the core reduction stage took place at those sites away from the raw material source. The tool-using strategy that was applied to chert was flake-oriented, and not core tool-oriented.

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著者

• Yuki Kimura

  Department Of Anthropology University Of Wisconsin-madison

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