2.6-Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-177

  Semaw, Sileshi ^a   Rogers, Michael J ^b   Quade, Jay ^c   Renne, Paul R ^d,e   Butler, Robert F ^c   Dominguez Rodrigo, Manuel ^f   Stout, Dietrich ^a   Hart, William S ^c   Pickering, Travis ^a,g   Simpson, Scott W ^h,i  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^h CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone fragments; Cutmarks; Earliest stone tools; Ounda Gona; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; BONE; PLIOCENE; TOOL USE;

AFAR; ETHIOPIA; GONA;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 10744231143     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(03)00093-9     Document Type: Article

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