The symposium “Interdisciplinary approaches to the 
Oldowan” took place in March 2006 within the framework of the annual meeting of the Society of American 
Archaeology in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We organized 
this symposium with the aim of discussing questions 
pertaining to the Oldowan that we deemed interesting 
and pressing in view of the rapid developments in the 
field over the last decade. The twelve papers that were 
presented in the symposium tackled lithic technology, 
raw material studies, site formation and meat acquisition, paleo-environmental frameworks, and Oldowan 
occurrences within and outside the African continent. 
The answers of the participants to our initial questions were far from uniform, but all were illuminating, 
interesting and thought-provoking. Participants and 
audience alike urged us to publish the symposium as 
an edited volume. This volume is the outcome of that 
symposium and the enthusiasm of our colleagues, for 
which we thank them.

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