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Seminar – Singularity or plurality of toolmakers in the Lower Pleistocene? (EHA/CFEE)

SEMINAR/SÉMINAIRE

Singularity or plurality of toolmakers in the Lower Pleistocene? Combining anatomy and field data

By Sandrine Prat

Thursday 31th October, 3.30 PM

@ EHA – Conference Presse Meeting Hall (Hominids section, 3rd floor, on the left)

 

Sandrine Prat is paleoanthropologist, CNRS research director in the Laboratory Histoire naturelle de l’Homme préhistorique (CNRS & National Museum of Natural History, Paris & Perpignan Via Domitia University). Her research contributes to discussions of hominin dispersal and expansion scenarios through two major themes. The first examines the morphological diversity of Pliocene hominins and the emergence of the genus Homo from a taxonomic and phylogenetic perspective. The second examines the first anatomically modern humans in Europe and at the Middle/Early Palaeolithic transition.

Over the last twenty-five years, the evolutionary history of hominins and archaeological assemblages has become considerably more complex. What are the relationships between the different material cultures and hominins? Is there a singularity or plurality of the stone and bone-tool makers? In this context, we will examine the anatomy of hominins and the associations between hominins and archaeological assemblages during the Lower Pleistocene in Africa. The type of dexterity required to make Oldowan assemblages is probably not limited to the genus Homo. Similarly, in southern and eastern Africa, there is a plurality of the stone and bone-tool makers, particularly in Oldowan assemblages, which are associated with Homo habilis, Homo erectus/ergaster, and also with Paranthropus remains, in significant proportions. As these occurrences do not appear to be fortuitous, Paranthropus should therefore be considered as a stone and bone tool-maker in the same way as early Homo.

 

This presentation is held in the Joint seminar EHA/CFEE framework:

Evolution: an international research seminar in Eastern Africa. Paleobiodiversity, paleobiology, prehistory, paleoenvironments

 

 


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Secrétaire Scientifique (25 octobre 2024). Seminar – Singularity or plurality of toolmakers in the Lower Pleistocene? (EHA/CFEE). UN ŒIL SUR LA CORNE / AN EYE ON THE HORN. Consulté le 3 novembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/12kmq


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