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Earliest archaeological evidence of persistent hominin carnivory by Ferraro, Joseph V, Plummer, Thomas W, Pobiner, Briana L, Oliver, James S, Bishop, Laura C, Braun, David R, Ditchfield, Peter W, Seaman, 3rd, John W, Binetti, Katie M, Seaman, Jr, John W, Hertel, Fritz, Potts, Richard

“…The emergence of lithic technology by ≈ 2.6 million years ago (Ma) is often interpreted as a correlate of increasingly recurrent hominin acquisition and…”
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Old stones' song: Use-wear experiments and analysis of the Oldowan quartz and quartzite assemblage from Kanjera South (Kenya) by Lemorini, Cristina, Plummer, Thomas W., Braun, David R., Crittenden, Alyssa N., Ditchfield, Peter W., Bishop, Laura C., Hertel, Fritz, Oliver, James S., Marlowe, Frank W., Schoeninger, Margaret J., Potts, Richard

“…Evidence of Oldowan tools by ∼2.6 million years ago (Ma) may signal a major adaptive shift in hominin evolution. While tool-dependent butchery of large mammals…”
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Ecological perspectives on technological diversity at Kanjera South by Reeves, Jonathan S., Braun, David R., Finestone, Emma M., Plummer, Thomas W.

“…The aspects of hominin behavior responsible for Oldowan stone tool variation are the focus of much debate. There is some consensus that this variation arises…”
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Bovid mortality patterns from Kanjera South, Homa Peninsula, Kenya and FLK-Zinj, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Evidence for habitat mediated variability in Oldowan hominin hunting and scavenging behavior by Oliver, James S., Plummer, Thomas W., Hertel, Fritz, Bishop, Laura C.

“…The archaeological record has documented Oldowan hominin occupation of habitats ranging from open grasslands to riparian forest by 2.0 Ma. Despite this we have…”
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Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus by Plummer, Thomas W, Oliver, James S, Finestone, Emma M, Ditchfield, Peter W, Bishop, Laura C, Blumenthal, Scott A, Lemorini, Cristina, Caricola, Isabella, Bailey, Shara E, Herries, Andy I R, Parkinson, Jennifer A, Whitfield, Elizabeth, Hertel, Fritz, Kinyanjui, Rahab N, Vincent, Thomas H, Li, Youjuan, Louys, Julien, Frost, Stephen R, Braun, David R, Reeves, Jonathan S, Early, Emily D G, Onyango, Blasto, Lamela-Lopez, Raquel, Forrest, Frances L, He, Huaiyu, Lane, Timothy P, Frouin, Marine, Nomade, Sébastien, Wilson, Evan P, Bartilol, Simion K, Rotich, Nelson Kiprono, Potts, Richard

“…The oldest Oldowan tool sites, from around 2.6 million years ago, have previously been confined to Ethiopia's Afar Triangle. We describe sites at Nyayanga,…”
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A GIS-based approach to documenting large canid damage to bones by Parkinson, Jennifer A., Plummer, Thomas W., Bose, Rebecca

“…Experimental studies of modern carnivore tooth marking patterns are integral to understanding the nature of carnivore involvement in archeological bone…”
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Pits and pitfalls: taxonomic variability and patterning in tooth mark dimensions by Delaney-Rivera, Colleen, Plummer, Thomas W., Hodgson, Jennifer A., Forrest, Frances, Hertel, Fritz, Oliver, James S.

“…Archaeologists use experimentally derived tooth mark frequencies, locations, and size data to infer (a) the extent of carnivore involvement in the formation…”
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New Oldowan locality Sare-Abururu (ca. 1.7 Ma) provides evidence of diverse hominin behaviors on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya by Finestone, Emma M., Plummer, Thomas W., Vincent, Thomas H., Blumenthal, Scott A., Ditchfield, Peter W., Bishop, Laura C., Oliver, James S., Herries, Andy I.R., Palfery, Christopher Vere, Lane, Timothy P., McGuire, Elizabeth, Reeves, Jonathan S., Rodés, Angel, Whitfield, Elizabeth, Braun, David R., Bartilol, Simion K., Rotich, Nelson Kiprono, Parkinson, Jennifer A., Lemorini, Cristina, Caricola, Isabella, Kinyanjui, Rahab N., Potts, Richard

“…The Homa Peninsula, in southwestern Kenya, continues to yield insights into Oldowan hominin landscape behaviors. The Late Pliocene locality of Nyayanga…”
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Core Use-Life Distributions in Lithic Assemblages as a Means for Reconstructing Behavioral Patterns by Douglass, Matthew J., Lin, Sam C., Braun, David R., Plummer, Thomas W.

“…Artifacts with varying use-lives have different discard rates and hence are represented unequally among archaeological assemblages. As such, the ability to…”
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Old stones’ song—second verse: use-wear analysis of rhyolite and fenetized andesite artifacts from the Oldowan lithic industry of Kanjera South, Kenya by Lemorini, Cristina, Bishop, Laura C., Plummer, Thomas W., Braun, David R., Ditchfield, Peter W., Oliver, James S.

“…This paper investigates Oldowan hominin behavioral ecology through use-wear analysis of artifacts from Kanjera South, Western Kenya. It extends development of…”
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Ecomorphological analysis of bovid mandibles from Laetoli Tanzania using 3D geometric morphometrics: Implications for hominin paleoenvironmental reconstruction by Forrest, Frances L., Plummer, Thomas W., Raaum, Ryan L.

“…The current study describes a new method of mandibular ecological morphology (ecomorphology). Three-dimensional geometric morphometrics (3D GM) was used to…”
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New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya by Faith, J. Tyler, Potts, Richard, Plummer, Thomas W., Bishop, Laura C., Marean, Curtis W., Tryon, Christian A.

“…The middle Pleistocene fossil mammal assemblage from Lainyamok in the southern Kenya rift has previously been considered the oldest (330–392ka) African mammal…”
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Habitat preference of extant African bovids based on astragalus morphology: operationalizing ecomorphology for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction by Plummer, Thomas W., Bishop, Laura C., Hertel, Fritz

“…The habitat preferences of fauna found at palaeontological and archaeological sites can be used to investigate ancient environments and hominin habitat…”
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Bovid ecomorphology and hominin paleoenvironments of the Shungura Formation, lower Omo River Valley, Ethiopia by Plummer, Thomas W., Ferraro, Joseph V., Louys, Julien, Hertel, Fritz, Alemseged, Zeresenay, Bobe, René, Bishop, L.C.

“…The Shungura Formation in the lower Omo River Valley, southern Ethiopia, has yielded an important paleontological and archeological record from the Pliocene…”
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Unexpected Convergent Evolution of Nasal Domes between Pleistocene Bovids and Cretaceous Hadrosaur Dinosaurs by O’Brien, Haley D., Faith, J. Tyler, Jenkins, Kirsten E., Peppe, Daniel J., Plummer, Thomas W., Jacobs, Zenobia L., Li, Bo, Joannes-Boyau, Renaud, Price, Gilbert, Feng, Yue-xing, Tryon, Christian A.

“…The fossil record provides tangible, historical evidence for the mode and operation of evolution across deep time. Striking patterns of convergence are some of…”
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Oldest Evidence of Toolmaking Hominins in a Grassland-Dominated Ecosystem by Plummer, Thomas W, Ditchfield, Peter W, Bishop, Laura C, Kingston, John D, Ferraro, Joseph V, Braun, David R, Hertel, Fritz, Potts, Richard

“…Background Major biological and cultural innovations in late Pliocene hominin evolution are frequently linked to the spread or fluctuating presence of C.sub.4…”
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Analysis of a bone assemblage made by chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania by Plummer, Thomas W., Stanford, Craig B.

“…Chimpanzee hunting provides information on prey characteristics and constraints acting on a large-bodied primate lacking a hunting technology, and has…”
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Meat on the menu: GIS spatial distribution analysis of bone surface damage indicates that Oldowan hominins at Kanjera South, Kenya had early access to carcasses by Parkinson, Jennifer A., Plummer, Thomas W., Oliver, James S., Bishop, Laura C.

“…The shift to increased meat consumption is one of the major adaptive changes in hominin dietary evolution. Although meat eating by Oldowan hominins is well…”
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Isotopic records of climate seasonality in equid teeth by Blumenthal, Scott A., Cerling, Thure E., Smiley, Tara M., Badgley, Catherine E., Plummer, Thomas W.

“…We investigate how oxygen isotopes in equid teeth can be used as a record of seasonality. First, we use in situ laser ablation and conventional microsampling…”
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Oldowan hominin behavior and ecology at Kanjera South,Kenya by Plummer, Thomas, Bishop, Laura

“…The Early Stone Age archaeological record does not become persistent and widespread until approximately 2.0-1.7 million years ago, when Oldowan sites spread…”
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