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The Unknown Oldowan: ~1.7-Million-Year-Old Standardized Obsidian Small Tools from Garba IV, Melka Ku...

The Unknown Oldowan: ~1.7-Million-Year-Old Standardized Obsidian Small Tools from Garba IV, Melka Ku...

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The Unknown Oldowan: ~1.7-Million-Year-Old Standardized Obsidian Small Tools from Garba IV, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia

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The Unknown Oldowan: ~1.7-Million-Year-Old Standardized Obsidian Small Tools from Garba IV, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia

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United States: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PloS one, 2015-12, Vol.10 (12), p.e0145101-e0145101

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English

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United States: Public Library of Science

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Contents

The Oldowan Industrial Complex has long been thought to have been static, with limited internal variability, embracing techno-complexes essentially focused on small-to-medium flake production. The flakes were rarely modified by retouch to produce small tools, which do not show any standardized pattern. Usually, the manufacture of small standardized...

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The Unknown Oldowan: ~1.7-Million-Year-Old Standardized Obsidian Small Tools from Garba IV, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1750968120

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1750968120

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0145101

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