The early oldowan stone-tool assemblage from Fejej FJ-1A, Ethiopia
Deborah Barsky
(1, 2)
,
Cécile Chapon-Sao
(2)
,
Jean-Jacques Bahain
(2)
,
Yonas Beyene
(3)
,
Dominique Cauche
(4)
,
Vincenzo Celiberti
(2)
,
Emmanuel Desclaux
(4)
,
Henri de Lumley
(4)
,
Marie-Antoinette de Lumley
(5)
,
François Marchal
(6)
,
Pierre-Elie Moulle
(7)
,
David Pleurdeau
(2)
1
IPHES-CERCA -
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social
2 HNHP - Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique
3 Autorité pour la recherche et la conservation du patrimoine culturel éthiopien Département d'archéologie et d'anthropologie
4 LDPL - Laboratoire Départemental de Préhistoire du Lazaret
5 IPH - Institut de Paléontologie Humaine
6 UAABC - Anthropologie Bio-Culturelle
7 Musée de Préhistoire Régionale de Menton
2 HNHP - Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique
3 Autorité pour la recherche et la conservation du patrimoine culturel éthiopien Département d'archéologie et d'anthropologie
4 LDPL - Laboratoire Départemental de Préhistoire du Lazaret
5 IPH - Institut de Paléontologie Humaine
6 UAABC - Anthropologie Bio-Culturelle
7 Musée de Préhistoire Régionale de Menton
Deborah Barsky
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Jean-Jacques Bahain
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Dominique Cauche
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Vincenzo Celiberti
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Emmanuel Desclaux
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François Marchal
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Résumé
Located in the Omo-Turkana basin at the northern limit of the Koobi Fora sedimentary Formation, the Fejej region has recently proven to be a rich study area for understanding early hominin behaviour and paleoenvironmental conditions. Among the rich fossiliferous and stone artefact localities discovered so far at Fejej, the FJ-1a archeological site has yielded a faunal and lithic assemblage in primary context. The archeological level is situated within a 15 meter fluvial sequence beneath a volcanic tuff. Geochronological data from the FJ-1 sequence indicate an age of nearly 1,9 Ma for the FJ-1a artefact level. The stone industry was knapped from locally available raw materials (mainly quartz and basalt) and rocks had been carefully selected according to specific petrographical and formal criterion. Hominins mastered several distinct stone knapping methods and used more or less exhaustive reduction sequences in order to produce small flakes. The different techniques used for stone reduction are defined in this paper thanks to a series of refits of flakes onto cores. Along with the refits, an in-depth analysis of the flakes, cores and worked pebbles provides an overview of the technological capacities of hominins present at the site nearly 2 million years ago. After the Fejej FJ-1a site was abandoned the archeological materials were rapidly buried, leaving an almost undisturbed archeological level. This site appears to represent a short episode of hominin occupation.
Domaines
Anthropologie biologiqueFormat du dépôt | Notice |
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The early oldowan stone-tool assemblage from Fejej FJ-1A, Ethiopia
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Résumé |
en
Located in the Omo-Turkana basin at the northern limit of the Koobi Fora sedimentary Formation, the Fejej region has recently proven to be a rich study area for understanding early hominin behaviour and paleoenvironmental conditions. Among the rich fossiliferous and stone artefact localities discovered so far at Fejej, the FJ-1a archeological site has yielded a faunal and lithic assemblage in primary context. The archeological level is situated within a 15 meter fluvial sequence beneath a volcanic tuff. Geochronological data from the FJ-1 sequence indicate an age of nearly 1,9 Ma for the FJ-1a artefact level. The stone industry was knapped from locally available raw materials (mainly quartz and basalt) and rocks had been carefully selected according to specific petrographical and formal criterion. Hominins mastered several distinct stone knapping methods and used more or less exhaustive reduction sequences in order to produce small flakes. The different techniques used for stone reduction are defined in this paper thanks to a series of refits of flakes onto cores. Along with the refits, an in-depth analysis of the flakes, cores and worked pebbles provides an overview of the technological capacities of hominins present at the site nearly 2 million years ago. After the Fejej FJ-1a site was abandoned the archeological materials were rapidly buried, leaving an almost undisturbed archeological level. This site appears to represent a short episode of hominin occupation.
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Auteur(s) |
Deborah Barsky
1, 2
, Cécile Chapon-Sao
2
, Jean-Jacques Bahain
2
, Yonas Beyene
3
, Dominique Cauche
4
, Vincenzo Celiberti
2
, Emmanuel Desclaux
4
, Henri de Lumley
4
, Marie-Antoinette de Lumley
5
, François Marchal
6
, Pierre-Elie Moulle
7
, David Pleurdeau
2
1
IPHES-CERCA -
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social
( 564320 )
- Zona Educacional 4 Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3) 43007, Tarragona
- Espagne
2
HNHP -
Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique
( 560416 )
- Institut de Paléontologie Humaine - 1 rue René Panhard - 72013 Paris
- France
3
Autorité pour la recherche et la conservation du patrimoine culturel éthiopien Département d'archéologie et d'anthropologie
( 116183 )
- Addis, Abéba
- Éthiopie
4
LDPL -
Laboratoire Départemental de Préhistoire du Lazaret
( 108515 )
- 33bis, boulevard Franck Pilatte 06300 Nice
- France
5
IPH -
Institut de Paléontologie Humaine
( 109976 )
- 1, rue René Panhard 75013 Paris
- France
6
UAABC -
Anthropologie Bio-Culturelle
( 942 )
- Faculté de Médecine - Secteur Nord Batiment A - CS80011 Bd Pierre Dramard 13344 MARSEILLE Cedex 15 FRANCE
- France
7
Musée de Préhistoire Régionale de Menton
( 159540 )
- rue Lorédan Larchey, 06500 Menton
- France
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Nom de la revue |
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Audience |
Non spécifiée
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Date de publication |
2011
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Volume |
9
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Numéro |
2
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Page/Identifiant |
207-224
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Mots-clés |
en
Plio-Pleistocene, refits, stone tool assemblage, Ethiopia, Mode 1, Oldowan, variability, technology, knapping
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DOI | 10.3213/2191-5784-10196 |
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