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Nicholas Toth

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#1288

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#1696

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#609

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Archeology

#332

World Rank

#483

Historical Rank

#78

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Nicholas Toth's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Patrick Toth is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist. He is a Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University and is a founder and co-director of the Stone Age Institute. Toth's archaeological and experimental research has focused on the stone tool technology of Early Stone Age hominins who produced Oldowan and Acheulean artifacts which have been discovered across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. He is best known for his experimental work, with Kathy Schick, including their work with the bonobo Kanzi who they taught to make and use simple stone tools similar to those made by our Early Stone Age ancestors.

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Nicholas Toth's Published Works

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Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas (1996) (448)
The oldowan reassessed: a close look at early stone artifacts (1985) (421)
Neural correlates of Early Stone Age toolmaking: technology, language and cognition in human evolution (2008) (386)
Archaeological evidence for preferential right-handedness in the lower and middle pleistocene, and its possible implications (1985) (348)
Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution And The Dawn Of Technology (1993) (331)
Pan the Tool-Maker: Investigations into the Stone Tool-Making and Tool-Using Capabilities of a Bonobo (Pan paniscus) (1993) (326)
Microwear polishes on early stone tools from Koobi Fora, Kenya (1981) (228)
FxJj50: An early Pleistocene site in northern Kenya (1980) (202)
Continuing Investigations into the Stone Tool-making and Tool-using Capabilities of a Bonobo (Pan paniscus) (1999) (188)
The Oldowan: The Tool Making of Early Hominins and Chimpanzees Compared (2009) (138)
Behavioral inferences from Early Stone artifact assemblages: an experimental model☆ (1987) (128)
EMG study of hand muscle recruitment during hard hammer percussion manufacture of Oldowan tools. (1998) (122)
The stone technologies of early hominids at Koobi Fora, Kenya : an experimental approach (1982) (119)
Stone Tool-Making and Brain Activation: Position Emission Tomography (PET) Studies (2000) (118)
The evolution and cultural transmission of percussive technology: integrating evidence from palaeoanthropology and primatology. (2009) (98)
An Experimental Investigation into the Nature of Faceted Limestone “Spheroids” in the Early Palaeolithic (1997) (71)
Breathing life into fossils : taphonomic studies in honor of C.K. (Bob) Brain (2007) (71)
The First Technology (1987) (70)
Archaeological perspectives in the Nihewan Basin, China (1991) (65)
Brief communication: cutmarks on a plio-pleistocene hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa. (2000) (64)
THE LAST STONE AX MAKERS (1992) (59)
Determining Stone Tool Use: Chemical and Morphological Analyses of Residues on Experimentally Manufactured Stone Tools (1997) (59)
The first million years; the archaeology of protohuman culture (1986) (58)
The Question of Ritual Cannibalism at Grotta Guattari [and Comments and Replies] (1991) (55)
The cutting edge : new approaches to the archaeology of human origins (2009) (54)
Molluscan Shell Knives and Experimental Cut-Marks on Bones (1989) (54)
THE OLDOWAN : CASE STUDIES INTO THE EARLIEST STONE AGE (2012) (52)
Engis: preparation damage, not ancient cutmarks. (1989) (51)
An overview of the cognitive implications of the Oldowan Industrial Complex (2018) (48)
Sub-Milankovitch paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental variability in East Africa recorded by Pleistocene lacustrine sediments from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2018) (28)
Sub-Milankovitch paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental variability in East Africa recorded by Pleistocene lacustrine sediments from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2018) (28)
New Olduvai Basin stratigraphy and stratigraphic concepts revealed by OGCP cores into the Palaeolake Olduvai depocentre, Tanzania (2020) (25)
Acheulean Industries of the Early and Middle Pleistocene, Middle Awash, Ethiopia (2017) (20)
Aquatic biomarkers record Pleistocene environmental changes at Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania (2019) (19)
Chronostratigraphy and age modeling of Pleistocene drill cores from the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania (Olduvai Gorge Coring Project) (2020) (18)
Palaeosalinity and palaeoclimatic geochemical proxies (elements Ti, Mg, Al) vary with Milankovitch cyclicity (1.3 to 2.0 Ma), OGCP cores, Palaeolake Olduvai, Tanzania (2020) (18)
Paleoanthropology at the Millennium (2001) (17)
Why did the Acheulean happen? Experimental studies into the manufacture and function of Acheulean artifacts (2019) (16)
Tuff fingerprinting and correlations between OGCP cores and outcrops for Pre-Bed I and Beds I/II at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2020) (15)
Lake conditions and detrital sources of Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania, reconstructed using X-ray Diffraction analysis of cores (2020) (12)
Seismic imaging of the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania (2019) (11)
THE EASTERN OLDUVAI BASIN DURING LOWERMOST BED II TIMES (2012) (11)
Olduvai's oldest Oldowan. (2020) (11)
Biogeochemical evidence for environmental changes of Pleistocene Lake Olduvai during the transitional sequence of OGCP core 2A that encompasses Tuff IB (~1.848 Ma) (2019) (10)
Changing depocentre environments of Palaeolake Olduvai and carbonates as marker horizons for hiatuses and lake-level extremes (2020) (9)
The Olduvai Gorge Coring Project: Drilling high resolution palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental archives to constrain hominin evolution (2021) (8)
The maternal energy hypothesis of brain evolution: an update (2010) (8)
21 Overview of Paleolithic Archeology (2007) (7)
Core stratigraphy constrains Bed IV archaeological record at HEB site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2020) (6)
Overview of Paleolithic Archaeology (2014) (6)
Kanzi Learns to Knap Stone Tools. (2007) (5)
PALEOECOLOGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MALACOFAUNA, OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA (2016) (5)
Inter- and Intra-rater Reliability in Lithic Analysis: a Case Study in Handedness Determination Methodologies (2020) (5)
Biogeochemical evidence from OGCP Core 2A sediments for environmental changes preceding deposition of Tuff IB and climatic transitions in Upper Bed I of the Olduvai Basin (2020) (5)
Origin and development of Tool-making behavior in Africa and Asia (2000) (4)
The Origins and Evolution of Technology (2013) (4)
Revised taphonomic perspective on African Plio–Pleistocene fauna (2017) (4)
ESR dating tooth enamel from the Paleolithic site at Longola, Zambia. (1993) (4)
Acheulean toolmaking and hominin brain evolution: a pilot study using Positron Emission Tomography. (2006) (4)
Chapter 14 – Evolution of Tool Use (2015) (3)
Palaeovegetation changes recorded in Palaeolake Olduvai OGCP Core 2A (2.09–2.12 Ma) Naibor Soit Formation Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2020) (3)
Lewis R. Binford Bones: ancient man and modern myths (1983) (2)
Los últimos fabricantes de hachas de piedra (1992) (2)
Biased preservation of Pleistocene climate variability proxies at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2020) (2)
The human career: Human biological and cultural origins: Edited by Richard G. Klein (1989). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. xxi + 524 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-226-43962-3 (1991) (1)
Stone tool origins (2004) (1)
Seismological Investigations in the Olduvai Basin and Ngorongoro Volcanic Highlands (Western Flank of the North Tanzanian Divergence) (2020) (1)
A TUFF JOB: LINKING CORES TO OUTCROP USING TEPHROSTRATIGRAPHY AT PLEISTOCENE OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA (2016) (1)
C. K. “Bob” Brain and African taphonomy (2004) (1)
Inter- and Intra-rater Reliability in Lithic Analysis: a Case Study in Handedness Determination Methodologies (2019) (0)
PALEO-LAKE OLDUVAI: FRESHER OR SALINE? NEW RESULTS FROM CLAY CHEMISTRY (2019) (0)
A CORE-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL AND DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY FOR PLEISTOCENE PALEOLAKE OLDUVAI, TANZANIA, BASED ON MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE (2020) (0)
African taphonomy : a celebration of the scientific life of C.K. 'Bob' Brain : news & views (2004) (0)
Alkenones in Pleistocene Upper Bed I (1.803–1.900 Ma) sediments from Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania (2022) (0)
Abstract: ESR dating of tooth enamel at Longola Spring Mound, Zambia (1991) (0)
Archeology: The Archaeology of Human Origins: Papers by Glynn Isaac. Barbara Isaac (1991) (0)
SEDIMENTARY BIOMARKERS RECORD ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH SHALLOWING OF PALEOLAKE OLDUVAI (CA. 1.8 MYR) (2016) (0)
Biogeochemical evidence for Pleistocene environmental changes in lacustrine sediments from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2019) (0)
A small-scale seismological experiment to constrain the faulting systems off the North Tanzanian Divergence (2019) (0)
How to succeed in business (The Business of Becoming a Cognitively Modern Human): a review of The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking, by Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn (2011) (0)
ORGANIC GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES OF CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE FROM THE SEDIMENTARY RECORD OF OLDUVAI GORGE (~1.85 - 1.88MA) (2016) (0)
DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES OF BED III AND BED IV, OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA: EXPANDING ON THE WORK OF RICHARD HAY, 1976 (2018) (0)
CORES RECORD PLEISTOCENE NGORONGORO VOLCANIC HISTORY, OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA (2021) (0)
The Preferential Collection and Use of Ochre Pigments and Iron Ores at Twin Rivers Kopje, Zambia (2015) (0)
From the Hand of Pan (1993) (0)
Data for: SEISMIC IMAGING OF THE OLDUVAI BASIN (2019) (0)
STERKFONTEIN CAVES, SOUTH AFRICA (2012) (0)
Thomas Wynn. The evolution of spatial competence. Illinois Studies in Anthropology 17 . 107 pages, 30 figures. 1989. Champaign (IL): University of Illinois Press; ISBN 0-252-06030-X paperback $l3.95 & £9.50. (1990) (0)
EROSIONAL ALIASING OF BULK ORGANIC GEOCHEMICAL CLIMATE RECORDS IN A SALINE-ALKALINE PALEOLAKE, OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA (2019) (0)
RESPONSE OF THE TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS AT PALEOLAKE OLDUVAI TO PLEISTOCENE PRECIPITATION CHANGES (2018) (0)
Biogeochemical Proxies of Climatic and Environmental Change from the Sedimentary Record of Paleolake Olduvai ( 1.80 - 1.88 Ma) (2016) (0)
BIOGEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE OF CHANGE IN DEPOSITIONAL SETTING IN PALEOLAKE OLDUVAI AT ~1.85 MA ASSOCIATED WITH COMPLEX INTERACTIONS OF CLIMATE, TECTONICS, AND VOLCANISM (2018) (0)
Stone Age Prehistory: Studies in Memory of Charles McBumey. G. N. Bailey and P. Callow, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986. xv + 265 pp., illustrations, tables, index. $69.50 (cloth). (1988) (0)
CORRELATING KNOWN HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLANDSCAPES TO THE OGCP CORES, OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA (2016) (0)
CANADIAN QUATERNARY ASSOCIATION 1991 BIENNIAL MEETING LATE GLACIAL AND POST-GLACIAL EVENTS IN COASTAL AND ADJACENT AREAS (2016) (0)
BULK MINERALOGY AS A PROXY FOR PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND PALEOLAKE CONDITIONS: A CORE-BASED XRD RECORD FROM OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA (2018) (0)
An Early Hands-On Introduction To Grossing And Frozen Section Technique For First-Year Residents (2020) (0)
CORE-DERIVED ZEOLITES RECORD CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN PLEISTOCENE PALEOLAKE OLDUVAI, TANZANIA (2019) (0)

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