1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool-cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria

被引：107

作者：

Sahnouni, Mohamed ^{[1
,2
,3
,4
]}

Pares, Josep M. ^{[1
]}

Duval, Mathieu ^{[1
,5
]}

Caceres, Isabel ^{[6
,7
]}

Harichane, Zoheir ^{[2
,8
]}

van der Made, Jan ^{[9
,10
]}

Perez-Gonzalez, Alfredo ^{[1
]}

Abdessadok, Salah ^{[2
,11
]}

Kandi, Nadia ^{[12
]}

Derradji, Abdelkader ^{[2
,13
]}

Medig, Mohamed ^{[13
]}

Boulaghraif, Kamel ^{[2
,14
]}

Semaw, Sileshi ^{[1
,3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Ctr Nacl Invest Evoluc Humana CENIEH, Burgos, Spain

[2] CNRPAH, Algiers, Algeria

[3] Indiana Univ, Stone Age Inst, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA

[4] Indiana Univ, Anthropol Dept, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA

[5] Griffith Univ, Australian Res Ctr Human Evolut, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

[6] Univ Rovira & Virgili, Area Prehist, Tarragona, Spain

[7] Inst Catala Paleoecol Humana & Evoluc Social IPHE, Tarragona, Spain

[8] Musee Natl Bardo, Algiers, Algeria

[9] Museo Nacl Ciencias Nat, Madrid, Spain

[10] CSIC, Madrid, Spain

[11] MNHN, Dept Homme & Environm, Paris, France

[12] Univ Lamine Debaghine Setif 2, Dept Archeol, Setif, Algeria

[13] Univ Alger 2, Inst Archeol, Algiers, Algeria

[14] Univ Ferrara, Dipartimento Studi Umanistici, Ferrara, Italy

来源：

SCIENCE | 2018年 / 362卷 / 6420期

基金：

澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 欧洲研究理事会;

关键词：

SUBSISTENCE ACTIVITIES; SHUNGURA FORMATION; EARLY PLEISTOCENE; PERCUSSION MARKS; OLDUVAI-GORGE; QUARTZ GRAINS; WEST TURKANA; TI CENTERS; COSMIC-RAY; CUT MARKS;

D O I：

10.1126/science.aau0008

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

East Africa has provided the earliest known evidence for Oldowan stone artifacts and hominin-induced stone tool cutmarks dated to similar to 2.6 million years (Ma) ago. The similar to 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 similar to 1.9 Ma ago, and the older to similar 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.

引用

页码：1297 / +

页数：53

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