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Thomas W. Plummer et al. (2023), “Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus.” Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo7452 — Nyayanga Oldowan and faunal processing; corrects the 2.6 Ma shorthand.

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  • Thomas W. Plummer et al. (2023), “Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus.” Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo7452 — Nyayanga, earliest Oldowan correction.

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Hominin Evolution

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Nyayanga Oldowan and faunal processing; corrects the 2.6 Ma shorthand.

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Paleolithic Period

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Nyayanga, earliest Oldowan correction.

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Hominin Evolution

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Paleolithic Period

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Fossil and chronological evidence places early Homo sapiens in Africa by about 300,000 years ago.

Humans are apes, the record contains contemporaneous branches, and Homo sapiens emerged in Africa.
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Late-Miocene hominin status, early-Homo taxonomy, and the population structure of Homo sapiens emergence within Africa remain contested.

Late-Miocene hominin status, early-Homo taxonomy, and African population structure remain contested.
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The identity of the hominins who made the Lomekwi 3 stone artifacts remains unresolved.

Most direct ancestor-descendant links, languages, beliefs, and the identity of many toolmakers are unrecoverable or unresolved.
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Evidence from compound adhesives and engraved symbolic material contradicts a single sudden Europe-only “behavioral revolution.”

Technologies and symbolic-material practices accumulated unevenly across multiple hominin lineages.
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The identity of the makers of the earliest known stone-artifact assemblages remains unresolved.

Earliest artifact makers, control of fire, behavioral-modernity labels, and regional periodization.
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The hominin fossil record is better represented as branching than as a single direct ancestor-descendant sequence.

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Evidence for compound adhesives and engraved symbolic material contradicts a single uniformly primitive “caveman” stage.

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Thomas W. Plummer et al. (2023), “Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus.” Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo7452 — Nyayanga Oldowan and faunal processing; corrects the 2.6 Ma shorthand.

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