Invest objectives
- To synthesise data on responses to seasonal changes in resource quality and/or availability in chimpanzees and modern human hunter-gatherers, and their relationship to technological investment
- To identify palaeoecological features that facilitate estimation of the seasonality of occupation at Early Stone Age sites
- To evaluate the utility of experimental flakes struck from “Large Cutting Tools” representative of the Early Acheulean compared with those struck from cores representative of the Oldowan
- To compare the utility of flakes found in Early Acheulean archaeological assemblages to those found in Oldowan assemblages
- To identify if any existing “Developed Oldowan” and Early Acheulean assemblages can be assigned to a season, and whether seasonality influenced technological investment