The Early Middle Pleistocene Site of Gombore II (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) and the Issue of Acheulean Bifacial Shaping Strategies
The Early Middle Pleistocene Site of Gombore II (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) and the Issue of Acheulean Bifacial Shaping Strategies
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DOI：
10.1007/s10437-010-9083-z
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
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1.6
通讯作者：
Piperno, Marcello
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作者：
Gallotti, Rosalia;Collina, Carmine;Piperno, Marcello
Gombore II遗址的历史可以追溯到大约Brunhes Matuyama Republique，是埃塞俄比亚上阿瓦什（Melka Kunture）考古遗址的阿舍利遗址之一，自20世纪70年代以来就被人们所知。在2001年，这个地方被选为露天博物馆的地点，因此被挖掘。挖掘区产生了丰富的阿舍利岩石组合，这些岩石组合是由火山原料制成的，与许多古生物遗迹密切相关。对一小部分双面工具（双面刀和切肉刀）进行了技术分析，这些工具可以暂时从博物馆的展览表面上取下。这组人工制品揭示了埃塞俄比亚中更新世开始时采用的双面成形策略的新数据。黑曜石的使用和扭曲双面的系统制造是该组合的原始特征。这些数据进行了讨论的框架内的准同期东非网站。
The Gombore II site dates to circa the Brunhes Matuyama Reversal and is one of the Acheulean localities of the Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia) archaeological complex, known since the 1970s. In 2001, this locality was selected as the site for an Open Air Museum and thus excavated. The excavation area has yielded an abundant Acheulean lithic assemblage manufactured on volcanic raw materials in close association with numerous paleontological remains. A technological analysis was carried out on a fraction of the bifacial tools (bifaces and cleavers) which could be temporarily removed from the displayed surface in the museum. This set of artefacts reveals new data about the bifacial shaping strategies adopted at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene in Ethiopia. The use of obsidian and the systematic manufacturing of twisted bifaces are original features of the assemblage. These data are discussed in the framework of penecontemporaneous East African sites.