| Title: |
Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with Homo erectus cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia |
| Authors: |
Semaw, Sileshi; Rogers, Michael J; Simpson, Scott W; Levin, Naomi E; Quade, Jay; Dunbar, Nelia; McIntosh, William C; Cáceres, Isabel; Stinchcomb, Gary E; Holloway, Ralph L; Brown, Francis H; Butler, Robert F; Stout, Dietrich; Everett, Melanie |
| Contributors: |
Univ Arizona, Desert Lab, Dept Geosci |
| Source: |
Science advances ; 6 ; 10 ; eaaw4694 ; United States |
| Publisher Information: |
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
The University of Arizona: UA Campus Repository |
| Description: |
Although stone tools generally co-occur with early members of the genus Homo, they are rarely found in direct association with hominins. We report that both Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts and Homo erectus crania were found in close association at 1.26 million years (Ma) ago at Busidima North (BSN12), and ca. 1.6 to 1.5 Ma ago at Dana Aoule North (DAN5) archaeological sites at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. The BSN12 partial cranium is robust and large, while the DAN5 cranium is smaller and more gracile, suggesting that H. erectus was probably a sexually dimorphic species. The evidence from Gona shows behavioral diversity and flexibility with a lengthy and concurrent use of both stone technologies by H. erectus, confounding a simple "single species/single technology" view of early Homo. ; Open access journal ; This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/641208; SCIENCE ADVANCES |
| DOI: |
10.1126/sciadv.aaw4694 |
| Availability: |
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/641208; https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw4694 |
| Rights: |
Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S.Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.73799CE7 |
| Database: |
BASE |