A review of recent advances in tribology

Y Meng, J Xu, Z **, B Prakash, Y Hu - Friction, 2020 - Springer
The reach of tribology has expanded in diverse fields and tribology related research
activities have seen immense growth during the last decade. This review takes stock of the …

Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus

TW Plummer, JS Oliver, EM Finestone, PW Ditchfield… - Science, 2023 - science.org
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, Kenya, dated to 3.032 …

Ecological shifts and hominin adaptations during the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in Northeast Asia as evidenced by isotopic analysis (δ13C, δ18O) of …

Z Xu, S Pei, Y Hu, I de la Torre, D Ma, Z Ye… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Nihewan Basin in North China is one of the most important early
archaeological sequences for our understanding of the ecological ranges exploited by …

Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments~ 2 million years ago

J Mercader, P Akuku, N Boivin, R Bugumba… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Rapid environmental change is a catalyst for human evolution, driving dietary innovations,
habitat diversification, and dispersal. However, there is a dearth of information to assess …

Bone tools from Beds II–IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology

M Pante, I de La Torre, F d'Errico, J Njau… - Journal of Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
The advent of bone technology in Africa is often associated with behavioral modernity that
began sometime in the Middle Stone Age. Yet, small numbers of bone tools are known from …

Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique

T Lüdecke, JN Leichliter, V Aldeias… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The analyses of the stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), and oxygen
(δ18O) in animal tissues are powerful tools for reconstructing the feeding behavior of …

Hominin raw material procurement in the Oldowan-Acheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge

LJ McHenry, I de la Torre - Journal of human evolution, 2018 - Elsevier
The lithic assemblages at the Oldowan-Acheulean transition in Bed II of Olduvai Gorge,
Tanzania, represent a wide variety of raw materials reflecting both the diversity of volcanic …

Dietary versatility of Early Pleistocene hominins

T Lüdecke, O Kullmer, U Wacker… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
New geochemical data from the Malawi Rift (Chiwondo Beds, Karonga Basin) fill a major
spatial gap in our knowledge of hominin adaptations on a continental scale. Oxygen (δ18O) …

The carnivorous feeding behavior of early Homo at HWK EE, Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

MC Pante, JK Njau, B Hensley-Marschand… - Journal of human …, 2018 - Elsevier
The regular consumption of large mammal carcasses, as evidenced by butchery marks on
fossils recovered from Early Stone Age archaeological sites, roughly coincides with the …

[HTML][HTML] When to generalise and when to specialise? Climate change and hominin biocultural adaptability in the African early and middle stone age

J Clark, GJ Linares-Matás - Quaternary Science Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
A growing number of authors have discussed the role of climate change in periods of
important biological and cultural transition along the hominin lineage. This paper …