Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rebeca Barba, Charles P. Egeland

By Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rebeca Barba, Charles P. Egeland

Plio-Pleistocene websites are an extraordinary incidence in similar websites. this mix of things is the archaeological checklist. after they are targeted in East African Plio-Pleistocene exposed, the faunal fabrics so an important to archaeology and has motivated a lot debate unlocking their behavioral which means are frequently over the socioeconomic functionality of early websites. poorly preserved. for instance, at Koobi Fora, Influential types of early hominid habit Kenya, a prolific sector that preserves numerous within the past due Sixties and early Seventies have been established vintage Plio-Pleistocene websites, many bones are completely on details from Olduvai plagued by terrible cortical floor maintenance Gorge (Leakey, 1971). even though Isaac’s (e. g. , (Isaac, 1997). Such taphonomic vagaries restrict 1978) paintings at Koobi Fora increased their the diversity of questions that may be addressed program, the following reviews, modi- with those assemblages. In different circumstances, cations, and reformulations of those types entry to fabrics might be constrained as a result of neighborhood have been dependent virtually completely on reviews from politics or rivalries among person Olduvai (Binford, 1981, 1984; Bunn, 1981; examine groups. accordingly, many vital Potts, 1982, 1988; Bunn and Kroll, 1986; assemblages both stay unstudied or have Blumenschine, 1995; Rose and Marshall, been interpreted with out the benefit of a 1996; Domínguez-Rodrigo, 1997a, 2002; absolutely constructed taphonomic framework, a sit down- Plummer, 2004). nonetheless, it's also uation that each one yet promises stagnant inter- transparent that persisted paintings at Koobi Fora and pretations.

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These patches of microstriations occur within and/or emanate from the depression. Microstriations also occur as isolated patches. Breakage patterns were analyzed from a multifaceted analytical approach and included the analysis of notches and breakage planes. Notches appear as semicircular outlines along the otherwise rectilinear edge of a fracture surAlthough Blumenschine (1995) claims that face and are associated with a negative flake percussion marks lack the internal crushing scar on the medullary surface.

After all, interpretations based on experimentation are limited by the scope of the experiment itself. For example, the invocation of felids as primary carcass consumers in interpretations of the FLK Level 22 fauna was based not on experimental observations of felid tooth-marking but on experiments in which hyenas served as carcass modifiers (Blumenschine, 1988) or on experiments in which results from felid bone modifications were lumped together with those created by canids and hyaenids to produce a mixed “carnivore-first” pattern (Selvaggio, 1994).

In sum, we feel that methodological uniformitarianism is an appropriate framework with which to understand and interpret historical processes. In addition, the referential frameworks selected to aid interpretations of hominid and carnivore behavior during Bed I times at Olduvai Gorge are acceptable because they abide by uniformitarian rules and have a solid experimental background. Finally, we suggest that an analytical approach focused on physical attributes will provide a more detailed and rigorous interpretive framework for reconstructing site formation.

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