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dc.contributor.authorSahnouni, Mohamed
dc.contributor.authorPares, Josep M
dc.contributor.authorDuval, Mathieu
dc.contributor.authorCaceres, Isabel
dc.contributor.authorHarichane, Zoheir
dc.contributor.authorvan der Made, Jan
dc.contributor.authorPerez-Gonzalez, Alfredo
dc.contributor.authorAbdessadok, Salah
dc.contributor.authorKandi, Nadia
dc.contributor.authorDerradji, Abdelkader
dc.contributor.authorMedig, Mohamed
dc.contributor.authorBoulaghraif, Kamel
dc.contributor.authorSemaw, Sileshi
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-07T01:35:45Z
dc.date.available2019-06-07T01:35:45Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0036-8075
dc.identifier.doi10.1126/science.aau0008
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/383164
dc.description.abstractEast 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 Africa.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1297
dc.relation.ispartofpageto+
dc.relation.ispartofissue6420
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSCIENCE
dc.relation.ispartofvolume362
dc.subject.fieldofresearchArchaeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4301
dc.title1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool-cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.griffith.authorDuval, Mathieu


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