Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this talk, Dr. Plummer reviews the current understanding of the Oldowan: when and where Oldowan tools are found, how they were made, what kinds of hominins (human relatives) may have used them, the functions of the tools, and what their adaptive significance was. He highlights research at ca. 2.6 – 2 million-year-old localities on the Homa Peninsula, southwestern Kenya, where he has been directing Oldowan excavations for over two decades in the vein of F. Clark Howell’s interdisciplinary fieldwork.

Learn more about the F. Clark Howell Legacy Society here:
leakeyfoundation.org/f-clark-howell-legacy-society