Techno Typological Analysis Of Developed Oldowan Early Acheulean Assemblages From Garba Iv C And D Melka Kunture (upper Awash) Ethiopia

This thesis conceives of an analysis of Early Stone Age collections from Melka Kunture,rnparticularly at Garba IV levels C and D. They were excavated between 1972 to 1985 and arerntoday stored at the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage. In spite ofrnongoing researches conducted at these localities, raw material influence on the knapping processrnof the knappers and the technological features of the previously nominated artifact traditionsrncalled “Developed Oldowan” is poorly understood. Methodologies like typologicalrnclassification, measurement of the technological axis, width, depth and so forth, identification ofrnraw material, understanding of thickness evennes along the technological line of artifacts werernemployed to address the problem. The production techniques were influenced by the type of rawrnmaterial. Although large flake productions are not large in number, their appearance is anrnessential indicator about the emergence of the Acheulean. The low number of Large CuttingrnTools is determined by the original size of the unworked material. On account of this, not onlyrnfrequency of Large Cutting Tools, but also understanding various technological innovations ofrnan artifact has been found to be important in characterizing Early Acheulean site. Therefore, thernartifact tradition called “Developed Oldowan” was not understood to be independetrntechnologicaly. It, rather, bears an evidence of technological similarities with the EarlyrnAcheulean

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