Ricerc@Sapienza

In light of the recent Oldowan discoveries and given the advances in Cognitive Primatology and Primate Archaeology, the application of a methodology that maximizes the inferences acquirable from the study of the Oldowan Percussive Stone Tools is now unavoidable.
This proposal aims to analyse the Percussive Stone Tools assemblage coming from the Oldowan site of Nyayanga (Homa Peninsula, Kenya), through the application of an innovative methodological framework combining use-wear and residues analysis with 3D modelling ad micro spatial analysis. In this way it will be possible to provide a detailed interpretation regarding the use of these tools at the site, combining both qualitative and quantitative data, enhancing our current knowledge regarding the use these tools during the African Early Stone Age, thus contributing to better understand the behavioural traits characterizing the early human groups occupying the area ca. 2.6 Mya.