Stratigraphic, chronological and behavioural contexts of Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6941, 2003, Pages 747-752

  Clark, J Desmond ^a   Beyene, Yonas ^b   WoldeGabriel, Giday ^c   Hart, William K ^d   Renne, Paul R ^a,e   Gilbert, Henry ^a   Defieur, Alban ^f   Suwa, Gen ^g   Katoh, Shigehiro ^h   Ludwig, Kenneth R ^e   Boisserie, Jean Renaud ⁱ   Asfaw, Berhane ^j   White, Tim D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Auth Res/Conserv of Cultur Her ^*  (Ethiopia)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h MUSEUM OF NATURE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^j Rift Valley Research Service Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; STRATIGRAPHY;

HOMO SAPIENS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ARGON;

BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; PLEISTOCENE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHRONOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; FAUNA; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LAKE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; STRATIGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MORTUARY PRACTICE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SKULL; TIME FACTORS;

ETHIOPIA;

CRANIA; HOMO SAPIENS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038240535     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01670     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. White, T. D. et al. Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature 423, 742-747 (2003).
2. Asfaw, B. et al. Australopithccus garlti: A new species of early hominid from Ethiopia. Science 284, 629-635 (1999).
3. Asfaw, B. et al. Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature 416, 317-320 (2002).
4. DeHeinzelin, J., Clark, J. D., Schick, K. D. & Gilbert, W. H (eds) The Acheulean and the Plio-Pleistocene Deposits of the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia (Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium; Ann. Sci. Geol. 104, 2000).
5. Katoh, S., Nagaoka, S., WoldeGabriel, G., Beyene, Y. & Suwa, G. Preliminary study on geomorphological development since the early Pleistocene in Konso-Gardula area (KGA), southern Ethiopia. Proc. Gen. Meet. Assoc. Jpn. Geogr. 49, 208-209 (1996).
6. Howell, F. C. Paleo-demes, species clades, and extinctions in the Pleistocene hominin record. J. Anthropol. Res. 55, 191-243 (1999).
7. Stringer, C. B. in The Age of the Earth: From 4004 BC to AD 2002 (eds Lewis, C. L. E. & Knell, S. J.) 265-274 (Geological Society of London, Spec. Publ. 190, 2001).
8. Tryon, C. A. & McBrearty, S. Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya. J. Hum. Evol. 42, 211-235 (2002).
9. Clark, J. D. in A Very Remote Period Indeed: Papers on the Palaeolithic Presented to Derek Roe (eds Milliken, S. & Cook, J.) 1-18 (Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2001).
10. Hours, E. in Proceedings of the Seventh Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, 1971, Addis Ababa (eds Abebe, B., Chavaillon, J. & Sutton, J. E. G.) 99-104 (Ministry of Culture, Addis Ababa, 1976).
11. Chavaillion, J., Chavaillon, N., Hours, F. & Piperno, M. From the Oldowan to the Middle Stone Age at Melka-Kunturé (Ethiopia): Understanding cultural changes. Quaternaria 21, 87-114 (1979).
12. Clark, J. D. in Hominid Evolution: Lifestyles and Survival Strategies (ed. Ullrich, H.) 277-292 (Edition Archaea, Berlin, 1999).
13. White, T. D. Prehistoric Cannibalism at Mancos 5MTUMR-2346 (Princeton Univ. Press, 1992).
14. White, T. D. & Toth, N. The question of ritual cannibalism at Grotta Guattari. Curr. Anthropol. 32, 118-138 (1991).
15. Pickering, T., White, T. D. & Toth, N. Cutmarks on a Plio-Pleistocene hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 111, 579-584 (2000).
16. White, T. D. Cutmarks on the Bodo cranium: A case of prehistoric defleshing. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 69, 503-550 (2000).