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Nicholas Toth
Researcher at Stone Age Institute
Publications - 65
Citations - 4650
Nicholas Toth is an academic researcher from Stone Age Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Olduvai Gorge & Oldowan. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 64 publications receiving 4301 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas Toth include Georgia State University & Indiana University.
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Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt,M. Lima da Costa,C. Lopes Machado,M. Michab,Norbert Mercier,Hélène Valladas,James K. Feathers,William K. Barnett,M. Imazio da Silveira,A. Henderson,J. Sliva,B. Chernoff,D. S. Reese,J. A. Holman,Nicholas Toth,Kathy Schick +15 more
TL;DR: A Paleoindian campsite has been uncovered in stratified prehistoric deposits in Caverna da Pedra Pintada at Monte Alegre in the Brazilian Amazon as discussed by the authors, and radiocarbon dates on carbonized plant remains and 13 luminescence dates on lithics and sediment indicate a late Pleistocene age contemporary with North American Paleoindians.
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The oldowan reassessed: a close look at early stone artifacts
TL;DR: Early Stone Age assemblages called "Oldowan" and early "Developed Oldowan" are discussed, based on the results of a long-term study of Plio-Pleistocene sites at Koobi Fora, Kenya and an extensive experimental research program of replicating and using early stone artifact forms.
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Neural correlates of Early Stone Age toolmaking: technology, language and cognition in human evolution
TL;DR: Results from a positron emission tomography study of functional brain activation during experimental ESA (Oldowan and Acheulean) toolmaking by expert subjects suggest that toolmaking and language share a basis in more general human capacities for complex, goal-directed action.
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Archaeological evidence for preferential right-handedness in the lower and middle pleistocene, and its possible implications
TL;DR: In this paper, a preferential, clockwise rotation of stone cores during flaking was found to be consistent with right-handed toolmakers, suggesting that there was a genetic basis for righthandedness by 1·4 to 1·9 million years ago, and there may have already been a profound lateralization in the hominid brain with the two hemispheres becoming more specialized for different functions.