Stone Tools and Fossil Bones
Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins

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1. Towards a scientific-realistic theory on the origin of human behavior Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Part I. On the Use of Analogy I: The Earliest Meat-Eaters:
2. Conceptual premises in experimental design and their bearing on the use of analogy: a critical example from experiments on cut marks Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
3. The use of bone surface modifications to model hominid lifeways during the Oldowan Charles P. Egeland
4. On early hominin meat-eating and carcass acquisition strategies: still relevant after all these years? Karen D. Lupo
5. Meat-foraging by Pleistocene African hominins: tracking behavioral evolution beyond baseline inferences of early access to carcasses Travis Rayne Pickering and Henry T. Bunn
6. Can we use chimpanzee behavior to model early hominin hunting? Travis Rayne Pickering and Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Part II. On the Use of Analogy II: The Earliest Stone Tool Makers:
7. The origins of the Oldowan: why are chimpanzees (pan troglodytes) still good models for the technological evolution in Africa? Susana Carvalho and William McGrew
8. What does Oldowan technology represent in terms of hominin behavior? David R. Braun
9. Testing cognitive skills in early Pleistocene hominins: an analysis of the concepts of hierarchization and predetermination in the lithic assemblages of type section (Peninj, Tanzania) Fernando Diez-Martín, Policarpo Sánchez Yustos, Javier Baena, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo and Daniel Rubio
10. The early Acheulean in Africa: past paradigms, current ideas, and future directions Fernando Diez-Martin and Metin I. Eren.

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