Author, as appears in the article.: Semaw, Sileshi; Rogers, Michael J; Simpson, Scott W; Levin, Naomi E; Quade, Jay; Dunbar, Nelia; McIntosh, William C; Caceres, Isabel; Stinchcomb, Gary E; Holloway, Ralph L; Brown, Francis H; Butler, Robert F; Stout, Dietrich; Everett, Melanie
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: Cáceres Cuello de Oro, Isabel
Keywords: Volatile; Turkana; Skull; Remains; Paleontology; Konso; Humans; Hominins; Hominidae; Fossils; Ethiopia; East; Dmanisi; Diversity; Depression; Biological evolution; Animals
Abstract: 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 BSN1 2 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.
Thematic Areas: Química; Multidisciplinary sciences; Multidisciplinary; Medicine (miscellaneous); Interdisciplinar; Geociências; General medicine; Engenharias iii; Ciências biológicas ii; Ciências biológicas i; Ciências ambientais; Ciências agrárias i; Biotecnología; Biodiversidade; Astronomia / física
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: isabel.caceres@urv.cat
Record's date: 2025-02-18
Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw4694
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Paper original source: Science Advances. 6 (10): eaaw4694-
APA: Semaw, Sileshi; Rogers, Michael J; Simpson, Scott W; Levin, Naomi E; Quade, Jay; Dunbar, Nelia; McIntosh, William C; Caceres, Isabel; Stinchcomb, Gary (2020). Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with Homo erectus cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. Science Advances, 6(10), eaaw4694-. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw4694
Article's DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw4694
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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