1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria
Mohamed Sahnouni
(1)
,
Josep M. Parés
(2)
,
Mathieu Duval
(3)
,
Isabel Cáceres
(4)
,
Zoheir Harichane
(2)
,
Jan van Der Made
,
Salah Abdessadok
(3)
,
Nadia Kandi
,
Abdelkader Derradji
,
Mohamed Medig
,
Kamel Boulaghraif
,
Sileshi Semaw
,
Alfredo Perez-Gonzalez
Mohamed Sahnouni
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Mathieu Duval
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Zoheir Harichane
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Jan van Der Made
- Fonction : Auteur
Nadia Kandi
- Fonction : Auteur
Abdelkader Derradji
- Fonction : Auteur
Mohamed Medig
- Fonction : Auteur
Kamel Boulaghraif
- Fonction : Auteur
Sileshi Semaw
- Fonction : Auteur
Alfredo Perez-Gonzalez
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Résumé
East Africa has provided the earliest known evidence for Oldowan stone artifacts and
hominin-induced stone tool cutmarks dated to ~2.6 million years (Ma) ago. The ~1.8-million-
year-old stone artifacts from Ain Hanech (Algeria) were considered to represent the
oldest archaeological materials in North Africa. Here we report older stone artifacts and
cutmarked bones excavated from two nearby deposits at Ain Boucherit estimated to
~1.9 Ma ago, and the older to ~2.4 Ma ago. Hence, the Ain Boucherit evidence shows that
ancestral hominins inhabited the Mediterranean fringe in northern Africa much earlier
than previously thought. The evidence strongly argues for early dispersal of stone tool
manufacture and use from East Africa or a possible multiple-origin scenario of stone
technology in both East and North Afri
Domaines
Archéologie et PréhistoireFormat du dépôt | Notice |
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Type de dépôt | Article dans une revue |
Titre |
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1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria
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Résumé |
en
East Africa has provided the earliest known evidence for Oldowan stone artifacts and
hominin-induced stone tool cutmarks dated to ~2.6 million years (Ma) ago. The ~1.8-million-
year-old stone artifacts from Ain Hanech (Algeria) were considered to represent the
oldest archaeological materials in North Africa. Here we report older stone artifacts and
cutmarked bones excavated from two nearby deposits at Ain Boucherit estimated to
~1.9 Ma ago, and the older to ~2.4 Ma ago. Hence, the Ain Boucherit evidence shows that
ancestral hominins inhabited the Mediterranean fringe in northern Africa much earlier
than previously thought. The evidence strongly argues for early dispersal of stone tool
manufacture and use from East Africa or a possible multiple-origin scenario of stone
technology in both East and North Afri
|
Auteur(s) |
Mohamed Sahnouni
1
, Josep M. Parés
2
, Mathieu Duval
3
, Isabel Cáceres
4
, Zoheir Harichane
2
, Jan van Der Made
, Salah Abdessadok
3
, Nadia Kandi
, Abdelkader Derradji
, Mohamed Medig
, Kamel Boulaghraif
, Sileshi Semaw
, Alfredo Perez-Gonzalez
1
CENIEH -
Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana
( 464816 )
- Espagne
2
CNRPAH -
Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques
( 457501 )
- Alger
- Algérie
3
HNHP -
Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique
( 121947 )
- Institut de Paléontologie Humaine - 1, rue René Panhard - 75013 Paris
- France
4
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
( 165020 )
- 43007 Tarragona
- Espagne
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Langue du document |
Anglais
|
Vulgarisation |
Non
|
Comité de lecture |
Oui
|
Audience |
Internationale
|
Nom de la revue |
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Date de production/écriture |
2018
|
Date de publication |
2018-09
|
Volume |
33
|
Numéro |
5
|
Page/Identifiant |
594-604
|
Domaine(s) |
|
DOI | 10.1126/science.aau0008 |
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