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 …

The Pleistocene high-elevation environments between 2.02 and 0.6 Ma at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia) based upon stable isotope analysis

G Briatico, H Bocherens, D Geraads, RT Melis… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Pleistocene environments are among the most studied issues in paleoecology and human
evolution research in eastern Africa. Many data have been recorded from archaeological …

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 …

Relative abundance of grazing and browsing herbivores is not a direct reflection of vegetation structure: Implications for hominin paleoenvironmental reconstruction

EW Negash, WA Barr - Journal of Human Evolution, 2023 - Elsevier
The diet of fossil herbivores inferred from enamel stable carbon isotopes is often used to
make paleoenvironmental reconstructions. While many studies have focused on using …

Dietary versatility of Early Pleistocene hominins

T Lüdecke, O Kullmer, U Wacker, O Sandrock… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
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) …