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Arroyo, A;
De la Torre, I;
(2018)
Pounding tools in HWK EE and EF-HR (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): Percussive activities in the Oldowan-Acheulean transition.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 402-421.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.10.005.
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Arroyo, A;
de la Torre, I;
(2016)
Assessing the function of pounding tools in the Early Stone Age: A microscopic approach to the analysis of percussive artefacts from Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania).
Journal of Archaeological Science
, 74
pp. 23-34.
10.1016/j.jas.2016.08.003.
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Arroyo, A;
Hirata, S;
Matsuzawa, T;
de la Torre, I;
(2016)
Nut Cracking Tools Used by Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Their Comparison with Early Stone Age Percussive Artefacts from Olduvai Gorge.
PLoS One
, 11
(11)
, Article e0166788. 10.1371/journal.pone.0166788.
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Benito-Calvo, A;
Arroyo, A;
Sánchez-Romero, L;
Pante, M;
De la Torre, I;
(2018)
Quantifying 3D Micro-Surface Changes on Experimental Stones Used to Break Bones and Their Implications for the Analysis of Early Stone Age Pounding Tools.
Archaeometry
, 60
(3)
pp. 419-436.
10.1111/arcm.12325.
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Benito-Calvo, A;
Carvalho, S;
Arroyo, A;
Matsuzawa, T;
de la Torre, I;
(2015)
First GIS Analysis of Modern Stone Tools Used by Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Bossou, Guinea, West Africa.
PLOS ONE
, 10
(3)
, Article e0121613. 10.1371/journal.pone.0121613.
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Benito-Calvo, A;
Crittenden, AN;
Livengood, SV;
Sánchez-Romero, L;
Martínez-Fernández, A;
de la Torre, I;
Pante, M;
(2018)
3D 360° surface morphometric analysis of pounding stone tools used by Hadza foragers of Tanzania: A new methodological approach for studying percussive stone artefacts.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
, 20
pp. 611-621.
10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.06.003.
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Bibi, F;
Pante, M;
Souron, A;
Stewart, K;
Varela, S;
Werdelin, L;
Boisserie, J-R;
... De la Torre, I; + view all
(2018)
Paleoecology of the Serengeti during the Oldowan-Acheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: The mammal and fish evidence.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 48-75.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.10.009.
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de la Torre, I;
(2019)
Searching for the emergence of stone tool making in eastern Africa.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
, 116
(24)
pp. 11567-11569.
10.1073/pnas.1906926116.
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De la Torre, I;
(2017)
Early Stone Tools and Cultural Transmission: Resetting the Null Hypothesis [Comment].
Current Anthropology
, 58
(5)
pp. 662-663.
10.1086/693846.
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de la Torre, I;
(2016)
The origins of the Acheulean: past and present perspectives on a major transition in human evolution.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
, 371
(1698)
, Article 20150245. 10.1098/rstb.2015.0245.
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De la Torre, I;
Albert, RM;
Arroyo, A;
Macphail, R;
McHenry, LJ;
Mora, R;
Njau, JK;
... Wehr, K; + view all
(2018)
New excavations at the HWK EE site: Archaeology, paleoenvironment and site formation processes during late Oldowan times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 140-202.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.018.
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de la Torre, I;
Albert, RM;
Macphail, R;
McHenry, LJ;
Pante, MC;
Rodríguez-Cintas, Á;
Stanistreet, IG;
(2018)
The contexts and early Acheulean archaeology of the EF-HR paleo-landscape (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania).
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 274-297.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.06.012.
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De la Torre, I;
Benito-Calvo, A;
Proffitt, T;
(2018)
The impact of hydraulic processes in Olduvai Beds I and II, Tanzania, through a particle dimension analysis of stone tool assemblages.
Geoarchaeology
, 33
(2)
pp. 218-236.
10.1002/gea.21629.
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De la Torre, I;
McHenry, L;
Njau, J;
(2018)
From the Oldowan to the Acheulean at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania – An introduction to the special issue.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 1-6.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.03.012.
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de la Torre, I;
McHenry, LJ;
Njau, JK;
(2018)
From the Oldowan to the Acheulean at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania – An introduction to the special issue.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 1-6.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.03.012.
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De la Torre, I;
Mora, R;
(2018)
Oldowan technological behaviour at HWK EE (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania).
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 236-273.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.04.001.
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De la Torre, I;
Mora, R;
(2018)
Technological behaviour in the early Acheulean of EF-HR (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania).
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 329-277.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.01.003.
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De la Torre, I;
Vanwezer, N;
Benito-Calvo, A;
Proffitt, T;
Mora, R;
(2018)
Spatial and orientation patterns of experimental stone tool refits.
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
10.1007/s12520-018-0701-z.
(In press).
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de la Torre, I;
Wehr, K;
(2018)
Site formation processes of the early Acheulean assemblage at EF-HR (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania).
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 298-328.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.002.
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Jorayev, G;
Wehr, K;
Benito-Calvo, A;
Njau, J;
de la Torre, I;
(2016)
Imaging and photogrammetry models of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A high-resolution digital database for research and conservation of Early Stone Age sites.
Journal of Archaeological Science
, 75
pp. 40-56.
10.1016/j.jas.2016.08.002.
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Key, A;
Proffitt, T;
De la Torre, I;
(2020)
Raw material optimization and stone tool engineering in the Early Stone Age of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania).
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
, 17
(162)
, Article 20190377. 10.1098/rsif.2019.0377.
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McHenry, LJ;
de la Torre, I;
(2018)
Hominin raw material procurement in the Oldowan-Acheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 378-401.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.11.010.
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McHenry, LJ;
Njau, JK;
de la Torre, I;
Pante, MC;
(2016)
Geochemical “fingerprints” for Olduvai Gorge Bed II tuffs and implications for the Oldowan–Acheulean transition.
Quaternary Research
, 85
(1)
pp. 147-158.
10.1016/j.yqres.2015.10.005.
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Pante, MC;
de la Torre, I;
(2017)
A hidden treasure of the Lower Pleistocene at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: The Leakey HWK EE assemblage.
Journal of Human Evolution
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.06.006.
(In press).
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Pante, MC;
Njau, JK;
Hensley-Marschand, B;
Keevil, TL;
Martín-Ramos, C;
Peters, RF;
de la Torre, I;
(2018)
The carnivorous feeding behavior of early Homo at HWK EE, Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 215-235.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.06.005.
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Pei, S;
Deng, C;
de la Torre, I;
Jia, Z;
Ma, D;
Li, X;
Wang, X;
(2019)
Magnetostratigraphic and archaeological records at the Early Pleistocene site complex of Madigou (Nihewan Basin): Implications for human adaptations in North China.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
, 530
pp. 176-189.
10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.05.014.
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Pei, S;
Xie, F;
Deng, C;
Jia, Z;
Wang, X;
Guan, Y;
Li, X;
... de la Torre, I; + view all
(2017)
Early Pleistocene archaeological occurrences at the Feiliang site, and the archaeology of human origins in the Nihewan Basin, North China.
PLoS One
, 12
(11)
, Article e0187251. 10.1371/journal.pone.0187251.
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Prassack, KA;
Pante, MC;
Njau, JK;
De la Torre, I;
(2018)
The paleoecology of Pleistocene birds from Middle Bed II, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and the environmental context of the Oldowan-Acheulean transition.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 32-47.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.11.003.
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Proffitt, T;
de la Torre, I;
(2018)
Comments on Apprenticeship in Early Neolithic Societies.The Transmission of Technological Knowledge at the Flint Mine of Casa Montero (Madrid, Spain), ca. 5300–5200 cal BC.
Current Anthropology
, 59
(6)
10.1086/700837?af=R&.
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Proffitt, T;
Luncz, LV;
Falótico, T;
Ottoni, EB;
De la Torre, I;
Haslam, M;
(2016)
Wild monkeys flake stone tools.
Nature
, 539
(7627)
pp. 85-88.
10.1038/nature20112.
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Rivals, F;
Uno, KT;
Bibi, F;
Pante, MC;
Njau, J;
De la Torre, I;
(2018)
Dietary traits of the ungulates from the HWK EE site at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): Diachronic changes and seasonality.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 203-214.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.08.011.
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Roche, H;
de la Torre, I;
Arroyo, A;
Brugal, J-P;
Harmand, S;
(2018)
Naiyena Engol 2 (West Turkana, Kenya): a Case Study on Variability in the Oldowan.
African Archaeological Review
, 35
(1)
pp. 57-85.
10.1007/s10437-018-9283-5.
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Stanistreet, IG;
McHenry, LJ;
Stollhofen, H;
De la Torre, I;
(2018)
Bed II Sequence Stratigraphic context of EF-HR and HWK EE archaeological sites, and the Oldowan/Acheulean succession at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 19-31.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.01.005.
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Uno, KT;
Rivals, F;
Bibi, F;
Pante, M;
Njau, J;
De la Torre, I;
(2018)
Large mammal diets and paleoecology across the Oldowan–Acheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania from stable isotope and tooth wear analyses.
Journal of Human Evolution
, 120
pp. 76-91.
10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.01.002.
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Withnell, C;
de la Torre, I;
(2019)
Thermal alterations in experimentally-flaked stone tools from Olduvai Gorge and their relevance for identification of fire in the Early Stone Age.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
, 27
(101978)
, Article 101978. 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101978.
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Wu, X-J;
Pei, S-W;
Cai, Y-J;
Tong, H-W;
Li, Q;
Dong, Z;
Sheng, J-C;
... Liu, W; + view all
(2019)
Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
, 116
(20)
pp. 9820-9824.
10.1073/pnas.1902396116.
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Thesis
Proffitt, TSH;
(2016)
A Technological Analysis of the Oldowan and Developed Oldowan Assemblages from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).
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