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The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa and Beyond

Contributions in Honor of Jean Chavaillon

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  1. Rosalia Gallotti

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

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  2. Margherita Mussi

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

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  • Presents current archaeological research and data from the major early Acheulean sites in East Africa
  • Addresses the techno-economic changes that led to the emergence of Acheulean technology in East Africa
  • Broadens the scope of research on the East African Acheulean by assessing its role in the emergence of Acheulean technology in North Africa and Europe

Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa: Historical Perspectives and Current Issues

    • Rosalia Gallotti, Margherita Mussi
    Pages 1-12

  3. Before the Acheulean in East Africa: An Overview of the Oldowan Lithic Assemblages

    • Rosalia Gallotti
    Pages 13-32

  4. Technological Assets for the Emergence of the Acheulean? Reflections on the Kokiselei 4 Lithic Assemblage and Its Place in the Archaeological Context of West Turkana, Kenya

    • Pierre-Jean Texier
    Pages 33-52

  5. Before, During, and After the Early Acheulean at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia): A Techno-economic Comparative Analysis

    • Rosalia Gallotti, Margherita Mussi
    Pages 53-92

  6. Variability in the Mountain Environment at Melka Kunture Archaeological Site, Ethiopia, During the Early Pleistocene (~1.7 Ma) and the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (0.9–0.6 Ma)

    • Raymonde Bonnefille, Rita Teresa Melis, Margherita Mussi
    Pages 93-114

  7. The Early Acheulean ~1.6–1.2 Ma from Gona, Ethiopia: Issues related to the Emergence of the Acheulean in Africa

    • Sileshi Semaw, Michael J. Rogers, Isabel Cáceres, Dietrich Stout, Amanda C. Leiss
    Pages 115-128

  8. The East African Early Acheulean of Peninj (Lake Natron, Tanzania)

    • Fernando Diez-Martín, Policarpo Sánchez-Yustos, Luis de Luque
    Pages 129-151

  9. Bifacial Shaping at the TK Acheulean Site (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): New Excavations 50 Years After Mary Leakey

    • Manuel Santonja, Susana Rubio-Jara, Joaquín Panera, Alfredo Pérez-González, Raquel Rojas-Mendoza, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo et al.
    Pages 153-181

  10. Faunal Change in Eastern Africa at the Oldowan – Acheulean Transition

    • Denis Geraads
    Pages 183-194

  11. The Acheulean Assemblages of Asia: A Review

    • Robin W. Dennell
    Pages 195-214

  12. From 800 to 500 ka in Western Europe. The Oldest Evidence of Acheuleans in Their Technological, Chronological, and Geographical Framework

    • Marie-Hélène Moncel, Nick Ashton
    Pages 215-235

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-242
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About this book

This edited volume presents current archaeological research and data from the major early Acheulean sites in East Africa, and addresses three main areas of focus; 1) the tempo and mode of technological changes that led to the emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa; 2) new approaches to lithic collections, including lithic technology analyses; and 3) the debated coexistence of the Developed Oldowan and the early Acheulean. The chapters are the proceedings from the workshop titled “The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa”, held at University of Rome “La Sapienza” on September 12–13, 2013. The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers currently working in this field in East Africa, in order to define the characteristics and the evolution of the early Acheulean. The volume was expanded with some chapters on the preceding Oldowan, on the African fauna and on paleovegetation, on the Acheulean in Asia and, eventually, on the Acheulean in Europe. 


The book is addressed to the scientific community, and will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, archaeologists, paleontologists, and paleoanthropologists. 


This volume is dedicated to the memory of Jean Chavaillon (March 25, 1925 - December 21, 2013), the leading archaeologist and Quaternary geologist who researched with unfailing enthusiasm the earliest human cultures and directed from 1965 to 1995 the French Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

    Rosalia Gallotti, Margherita Mussi

About the editors

Dr. Margherita Mussi is an Associate Professor at the Università di Roma La Sapienza. She is also a teaching member of the Postdoctoral Programme in Archaeology, Università di Roma LaSapienza. Her research interests include (a) The Palaeolithic peopling of Italy (mainland and islands), (b) Palaeolithic burials and art, and (c) human evolution in the Horn of Africa. 

Dr. Rosalia Gallotti is a palaeolithic archaeologist primarily interested in (a) origin and evolution of the earliest hominin technical productions; and (b) development of computer assisted techniques for better documenting excavation and performing spatial analysis to analyse site formation processes. She is a researcher at the Université Bordeaux in France.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa and Beyond

  • Book Subtitle: Contributions in Honor of Jean Chavaillon

  • Editors: Rosalia Gallotti, Margherita Mussi

  • Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75985-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75983-8Published: 03 September 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09371-6Published: 15 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75985-2Published: 17 August 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1877-9077

  • Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 242

  • Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Paleontology, Archaeology, Anthropology, Environment, general

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