The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa and Beyond

Chapter 1 The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa: Historical Perspectives and Current Issues

Chapter 2 Before the Acheulean in East Africa: An Overview of the Oldowan Lithic Assemblages

Chapter 3 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

Chapter 4 Before, During, and After the Early Acheulean at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia): A Techno-economic Comparative Analysis

Chapter 5 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)

Chapter 6 The Early Acheulean ~1.6–1.2 Ma from Gona, Ethiopia: Issues related to the Emergence of the Acheulean in Africa

Chapter 8 Bifacial Shaping at the TK Acheulean Site (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): New Excavations 50 Years After Mary Leakey

Chapter 9 Faunal Change in Eastern Africa at the Oldowan – Acheulean Transition

Chapter 10 The Acheulean Assemblages of Asia: A Review

Chapter 11 From 800 to 500 ka in Western Europe. The Oldest Evidence of Acheuleans in Their Technological, Chronological, and Geographical Framework