Cristina Fraile

TL;DR: A detailed technological study is provided and evidence of the use of these tools on the butchery and consumption of fauna, probably by early Homo erectus sensu lato is provided, showing that complex cognition was present from the earliest stages of the Acheulean.

TL;DR: A detailed taphonomic study of the faunal assemblage from FLK West (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania), a site with an Acheulean component that dates to 1.7 Ma, is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between bipolar cores and spheroids in the Olduvai Gorge and concluded that the bipolar technique is the most efficient technique to produce portable and manageable cuboid-shaped slab fragments, and bipolar cuboidshaped fragments can be modified to sub-spherical shape through intensive percussive processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis and classification of flaking cores through detailed diacritical and technological descriptions, regardless of aprioristic morphological considerations, was carried out on two developed oldowan assemblages from SHK and BK at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania).

TL;DR: An original techno-functional approach is applied here to analyze the origin of Acheulean tools and indicates that the design form and production principles of handaxe manufacture were the result of an abrupt emergence rather than a long gradual development.