Jason Lewis

TL;DR: The discovery of Lomekwi 3 is reported, a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site where in situ stone artefacts occur in spatiotemporal association with Pliocene hominin fossils in a wooded palaeoenvironment and the name ‘Lomekwian’ is proposed, which predates the Oldowan by 700,000 years and marks a new beginning to the known archaeological record.

TL;DR: In this article, bovine tibiae (n ǫ = 7) were struck using six different types of bladed weapon and the resulting marks (nǫ=92) were analyzed.

TL;DR: The Morton case provides an example of how the scientific method can shield results from cultural biases, by remeasuring Morton's skulls and reexamining both Morton's and Gould's analyses.

TL;DR: The discovery of the earliest known stone tools at Lomekwi 3 (LOM3) from West Turkana, Kenya, dated to 3.3 Ma, raises new questions about the mode and tempo of key adaptations in the hominin lineage and forms part of an emerging paradigm shift in palaeoanthropology.

TL;DR: The Kisese II rockshelter in the Kondoa region of Tanzania, originally excavated in 1956, preserves a 6-m-thick archaeological succession that spans the MSA/LSA transition, with lithic artifacts such as Levallois and bladelet cores and backed microliths, and >5,000 ostrich eggshell beads and bead fragments.