Palaeoanthropological Investigations of the Middle Stone Age in the Middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia

布鲁克斯9521879 中石器时代是一个解剖学上现代 人类取代了更古老的形式。 最近的研究结果， 非洲已经表明，人类的经济活动在这个时候， 也可能与重要的行为变化有关。 然而，对中石器时代遗址的挖掘是有限的， 具有良好动物群保存的长序列是罕见的。 这 该项目将继续由一个跨学科的团队， 考古学家、古生物学家、地质学家和地球化学家， 阿杜马-布里地区的中石器时代和阿舍利遗址 位于埃塞俄比亚的中阿瓦什谷。 继续挖掘 将集中研究人类经济活动的证据， 与化石湖岸和三角洲沉积物的关系。 平行工作将继续在相对鲜为人知的中东 阿杜马地区和后来的阿切兰地区的石器时代工业 为了建立一个按时间顺序和 这些序列之间的古环境关系 两个区域。 研究将包括地层， 古景观和古环境重建 阿杜马地区和建立一个绝对年表使用 几种技术。 该项目将与 由T.D.白色，即工作站点 向北30公里。 这个项目将继续已经是一个 埃塞俄比亚中部的生产网络。 优秀 材料的保存产生了新的见解， 海洋相关产业的发展。 具有特殊意义的 是获得新的洞察力的潜力 早期人类从独立行动者转变为 共同工作的社区实体， 复杂的工具

9521879 BROOKS The Middle Stone Age is a period when anatomically modern humans replaced more archaic forms. Recent research findings in Africa have shown that economic activities of humans in this time may also have been associated with crucial behavioral changes. Excavation of Middle Stone Age sites is limited, however, and long sequences with good faunal preservation are rare. This project will continue work by an interdisciplinary team of archeologists, paleontologists, geologists, and geochemists at Middle Stone Age and Acheulean sites in the Aduma-Bouri regions of the Middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia. Continued excavations will focus on evidence of human economic activities in association with fossil lake shores and deltaic deposits. Parallel work will continue on the relatively little-known Middle Stone Age industries of the Aduma region and the later Acheulan sites at Bouri in order to establish a chronological and paleoenvironmental relationship between the sequences of these two regions. Research will include stratigraphic, paleolandscape, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Aduma region and establishment of an absolute chronology using several techniques. The project will be coordinated with the work of a team led by T.D. White that is working sites about 30 km to the north. This project will continue what already has been a productive network of sites in central Ethiopia. The excellent preservation of materials has generated new insights into the evolution of marine-related industries. Of special significance is the potential to gain new insights into the behavior transformation of early humans from independent actors into communal entities who work together and employ relatively sophisticated tools.