The expansion of the Acheulian to the Southeastern Ethiopian Highlands: Insights from the new early Pleistocene site-complex of Melka Wakena
The expansion of the Acheulian to the Southeastern Ethiopian Highlands: Insights from the new early Pleistocene site-complex of Melka Wakena
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阿舍利山脉向埃塞俄比亚东南部高地的扩张:来自梅尔卡瓦克纳新的早更新世遗址群的见解
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10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106763
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
Bienvenido, Martínez-Navarro
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作者:
Erella, Hovers;Tegenu, Gossa;Asfawossen, Asrat;Elizabeth, M. Niespolo;Angesom, Resom;Paul, R. Renne;Ravid, Ekshtain;Gadi, Herzlinger;Natnael, Ketema;Bienvenido, Martínez-Navarro
Current models of early hominin biological and cultural evolution are shaped almost entirely by the data accumulated from the East African Rift System (EARS) over the last decades. In contrast, little is known about the archaeological record from the high-elevation regions on either side of the Rift. Melka Wakena is a newly discovered site-complex on the Southeastern Ethiopian Highlands (SEH) (>2300 m above mean sea level) just east of the central sector of the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER), where eight archaeological and two paleontological localities were discovered to date. Nine archaeological horizons from three localities were tested so far, all dated to the second half of the early Pleistocene (∼1.6 to >0.7 Ma). All the lithic assemblages belong to the Acheulian technocomplex. Here we report on geochronological, stratigraphic, paleontological and lithic technological aspects of the tested localities and contextualize them in the broader framework of hominin cultural evolution in eastern Africa. Findings from Melka Wakena, assessed against the backdrop of the few other highland sites (Melka Kunture and Gadeb), support a scenario of expansion rather than dispersal from the Rift to the highlands. When considered in the context of the Rift-highlands interface, results of the first-phase research at Melka Wakena help to parse existing general models into archaeologically testable hypotheses and demonstrate the site’s potential to contribute to research of early prehistory and to understanding the dynamics of early Pleistocene hominin populations in eastern Africa.
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3.2
作者:
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通讯作者:
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发表时间:
1978
期刊:
Geological Society Special Publication
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Sangheon Pack
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发表时间:
2018
期刊:
Evolutionary Anthropology (print)
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作者:
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