User:C99L35/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Because the class has already moved beyond the point of article/topic selection I am using this as an exercise in gathering information on related topics to help situate Gona within the context of discourse and debate in the field.

Option 1
Option 2
 * Ledi-Geraru
 * Article Evaluation
 * This page is listed as a stub class article and is quite underdeveloped. While the lead section suggests that the age will address both archaeological and paleoanthropological scholarship related to the site via a reference to an article in Science News which is a press release for Braun et al (2019).  Adding a section on the archaeology of Ledi-Geraru would improve the page because Ledi-Geraru has been important in discussions and debates surrounding the early Oldowan in East Africa for the past several years. Understanding the relationship of the early Oldowan artifacts from Gona  archaeological sites and those at Ledi-Geraru will assist in providing a more balanced narrative about Gona's relationship with the early Oldowan. Braun et al is the only publication on Oldowan at Ledi-Geraru thus although comments by Sahle and Gossa  and Braun et al's reply help to tease out the debate concerning the 2.61-2.58 Ma date range of Bokol Dora 1 assemblage . Sahle and Gossa's assertion that the difference in dates of the oldest assemblages at Gona and Braun et al's range for Bokol Dora 1 is marginal is important to contend with when discussing the early Oldowan and it's emergence. This raises the question of how archaeology at Ledi-Geraru should be presented to the public. I think it would be important to add a caveat that addresses the argument that the difference in age is marginal, but that it disrupts the narrative that Gona has the oldest Oldowan assemblages. The Oldowan at Gona is no longer the oldest instance of the Oldowan to be published to date.
 * This page is listed as a stub class article and is quite underdeveloped. While the lead section suggests that the age will address both archaeological and paleoanthropological scholarship related to the site via a reference to an article in Science News which is a press release for Braun et al (2019).  Adding a section on the archaeology of Ledi-Geraru would improve the page because Ledi-Geraru has been important in discussions and debates surrounding the early Oldowan in East Africa for the past several years. Understanding the relationship of the early Oldowan artifacts from Gona  archaeological sites and those at Ledi-Geraru will assist in providing a more balanced narrative about Gona's relationship with the early Oldowan. Braun et al is the only publication on Oldowan at Ledi-Geraru thus although comments by Sahle and Gossa  and Braun et al's reply help to tease out the debate concerning the 2.61-2.58 Ma date range of Bokol Dora 1 assemblage . Sahle and Gossa's assertion that the difference in dates of the oldest assemblages at Gona and Braun et al's range for Bokol Dora 1 is marginal is important to contend with when discussing the early Oldowan and it's emergence. This raises the question of how archaeology at Ledi-Geraru should be presented to the public. I think it would be important to add a caveat that addresses the argument that the difference in age is marginal, but that it disrupts the narrative that Gona has the oldest Oldowan assemblages. The Oldowan at Gona is no longer the oldest instance of the Oldowan to be published to date.
 * Lomekwi
 * Article Evaluation
 * This wikipedia article is quite balanced and makes specific reference to the individuals who show support for the Lowmekwian and their specific opinions on the site. Although it is a stub class article it provides a balanced view of Lomekwi for the most part. If I were to add to this article or incorporate the Lomekwian in my discussion of Gona and the oldest/early Oldowan I would add reference to Dominguez-Rodgrigo and Alcala's skepticism of the Lomekwian driven by the contention around the in-situ nature of the assemblage. I would also add information about the relationship that has recently been proposed between the Lomkewian and the Oldowan in the work of Flicker and Key. Addressing this possible relationship would allow the argument of the nature of the Lomkewian to be brought out in the article. It would be important to address archeaologists' disagreement about if the Lomkewian represents technological convergence or not because this is a major point of discourse about the Lomekwian and impacts the broader landscape of ESA archaeology in Africa and therefore the narratives about the archaeology of the ESA that are presented to the public.
 * This wikipedia article is quite balanced and makes specific reference to the individuals who show support for the Lowmekwian and their specific opinions on the site. Although it is a stub class article it provides a balanced view of Lomekwi for the most part. If I were to add to this article or incorporate the Lomekwian in my discussion of Gona and the oldest/early Oldowan I would add reference to Dominguez-Rodgrigo and Alcala's skepticism of the Lomekwian driven by the contention around the in-situ nature of the assemblage. I would also add information about the relationship that has recently been proposed between the Lomkewian and the Oldowan in the work of Flicker and Key. Addressing this possible relationship would allow the argument of the nature of the Lomkewian to be brought out in the article. It would be important to address archeaologists' disagreement about if the Lomkewian represents technological convergence or not because this is a major point of discourse about the Lomekwian and impacts the broader landscape of ESA archaeology in Africa and therefore the narratives about the archaeology of the ESA that are presented to the public.



Option 3

 * Oldowan
 * Article Evaluation
 * I specifically chose to evaluate this article because, in my opinion, it sets the tone for all other articles relating to the Oldowan on wikipedia. Gona is referenced several times, so understanding how users of wikipedia might be introduced to the Gona wiki page and the nature of the introduction is important for thinking about how to present the information and what information is appropriate for the Gona page as opposed to the larger discussion of the Oldowan presented on the Oldowan subject page. One thing that I immediately noticed is that the findings Oldowan assemblage from Nyayanga published recently by Plummer et al have already been incorporated into the body of the article This is a very interesting case because since the publication of the finds at Nyayanga is so recent and the implications of the publication for the overall understanding of the Oldowan archaeological record and its geographical distribution. The findings related to paranthropus have also garnered a huge amount of public interest. The problem with this is there has not been a sufficient amount of time since publication for discourse that is beginning to brew in the African Paleolithic Archaeological community to be borne out in publications and digested by the public. What these findings mean in the grand scheme of archaeological understanding of the early Oldowan is yet to be seen. I do feel that the article provides a very through and usually well balanced perspective of the Oldowan and the individuals involved in editing the page and posting on the talk page seem to be quite invested in the quality of the page despite some sections lacking proper citation. I hope that through my improvements to the Gona page I will be able to provide the public with information that will supplement the understanding that they could gain on the Oldowan page. I intend to incorporate this as one of my goals in my revised project plan for my page.
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