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DOI	10.1016/j.anthro.2021.102848
	The lithic assemblage of the Acheulean site of Namib IV (Central Namib, Namibia)
	Mesfin, Isis; Pleurdeau, David; Forestier, Hubert
通讯作者	Mesfin, I (corresponding author), Inst Paleontol Humaine, 1 Rue Rene Panhard, F-75013 Paris, France.
来源期刊	ANTHROPOLOGIE
ISSN	0003-5521
EISSN	1873-5827
出版年	2021
卷号	125 期号:1
英文摘要	Despite a rich archaeological record, the old prehistory of Namibia, particularly from the Earlier Stone Age, is poorly documented, due to the surface context of the findings, exposed by erosional processes. In this context, human behaviors and responses to environment changes in this region during the Middle Pleistocene remain unclear. In the late 1970's, Myra Shackley surveyed the Central Namib dune desert and discovered lithic artefacts associated to fragmented fossilized bones of antelopes, elephants, zebras and buffalos at Namib IV. She interpreted this locality as an Acheulean butchery site on the shores of a paleolake. The radiometric dating suggested an age of similar to 347ka whereas biochronology broadly pointed the human occupation to the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (1-0.5 Ma). Thanks to these ages, Namib IV is currently the earliest dated evidence of human presence in the current Namib coastal desert. Contextualized by the existing chronological and paleoenvironmental data, we analyzed the unstudied lithic material recovered at Namib IV. To do so, we applied a qualitative morpho-structural approach to the stone tools and tried to reconstruct the productional schemes (chaines ope ' ratoires). Our results argue for an important economy of the raw material, a spatial fragmentation of stone tool production and an important technical homogeneity of the lithic assemblage despite few possible intrusive elements. In the light of these analyses, we finally discussed the advanced site function of Namib IV as butchery site. (C) 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Acheulean Namibia Butchery Lithic technology Earlier Stone Age Quartz
类型	Article
语种	法语
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000631845200012
WOS类目	Anthropology
WOS研究方向	Anthropology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/349474
作者单位	[Mesfin, Isis; Pleurdeau, David; Forestier, Hubert] Univ Perpignan Via Domitia, Museum Natl Hist & Nat, Alliance Sorbonne Univ, UMR Hist Nat & Homme Prehist 7194,CNRS, Paris, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mesfin, Isis,Pleurdeau, David,Forestier, Hubert. The lithic assemblage of the Acheulean site of Namib IV (Central Namib, Namibia)[J],2021,125(1).
APA	Mesfin, Isis,Pleurdeau, David,&Forestier, Hubert.(2021).The lithic assemblage of the Acheulean site of Namib IV (Central Namib, Namibia).ANTHROPOLOGIE,125(1).
MLA	Mesfin, Isis,et al."The lithic assemblage of the Acheulean site of Namib IV (Central Namib, Namibia)".ANTHROPOLOGIE 125.1(2021).