干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7-an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan

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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0248279
	The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7-an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan
	Masojc, Miroslaw; Kim, Ju Yong; Krupa-Kurzynowska, Joanna; Sohn, Young Kwan; Ehlert, Maciej; Michalec, Grzegorz; Cendrowska, Marzena; Andrieux, Eric; Armitage, Simon J.; Szmit, Marcin; Dreczko, Ewa; Kim, Jin Cheul; Kim, Ji Sung; Lee, Gwang-Soo; Moska, Piotr; Jadain, Modather Abdalla
通讯作者	Masojc, M (corresponding author), Univ Wroclaw, Inst Archaeol, Wroclaw, Poland.
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2021
卷号	16 期号:3
英文摘要	Although essential for reconstructing hominin behaviour during the Early Palaeolithic, only a handful of Acheulean sites have been dated in the Eastern Sahara region. This is due to the scarcity of sites for this time period and the lack of datable material. However, recent excavations in the Atbara region (Sudan) have provided unique opportunities to analyse and date Acheulean stone tools. We report here on EDAR 7, part of a cluster of Acheulean and Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites that were recently discovered in the Eastern Desert Atbara River (EDAR) region, located in the Eastern Desert (Sudan) far from the Nile valley. At EDAR 7, a 3.5 metre sedimentary sequence was excavated, allowing an Acheulean assemblage to be investigated using a combination of sedimentology, stone tool studies and optically stimulated luminescence dating (OSL). The site has delivered a complete Acheulean knapping chaine operatoire, providing new information about the Saharan Acheulean. The EDAR 7 site is interpreted as a remnant of a campsite based on the co-occurrence of two reduction modes: one geared towards the production of Large Cutting Tools (LCTs), and the other based on the flaking of small debitage and production of flake tools. Particularly notable in the EDAR 7 assemblage is the abundance of cleavers, most of which display evidence of flake production. Implementation of giant Kombewa flakes was also observed. A geometric morphometric analysis of hand-axes was conducted to verify a possible Late Acheulean assemblage standardisation in the Nubian Sahara. In addition, the analysis of micro-traces and wear on the artefacts has provided information on the use history of the Acheulean stone tools. Sediment analyses and OSL dating show that the EDAR 7 sequence contains the oldest Acheulean encampment remains in the Eastern Sahara, dated to the MIS 11 or earlier. This confirms that Homo erectus occupied the EDAR region during Middle Pleistocene humid periods, and demonstrates that habitable corridors existed between the Ethiopian Highlands, the Nile and the Red Sea coast, allowing population dispersals across the continent and out of it.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Accepted, Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000632916600010
WOS关键词	JINMIUM ROCK SHELTER ; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA ; HOMININ DISPERSALS ; MULTIPLE GRAINS ; WEAR ANALYSIS ; STONE TOOLS ; SITE 8-B-11 ; SAI ISLAND ; QUARTZ
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
来源机构	University of London
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/351384
作者单位	[Masojc, Miroslaw; Ehlert, Maciej; Michalec, Grzegorz; Cendrowska, Marzena; Dreczko, Ewa] Univ Wroclaw, Inst Archaeol, Wroclaw, Poland; [Kim, Ju Yong; Kim, Jin Cheul; Kim, Ji Sung; Lee, Gwang-Soo] Korea Inst Geosci & Mineral Resources KIGAM, Daejeon, South Korea; [Krupa-Kurzynowska, Joanna] Wroclaw Univ Sci & Technol, Fac Geoengn Min & Geol, Wroclaw, Poland; [Sohn, Young Kwan] Gyeongsang Natl Univ GNU, Dept Geol, Jinju, South Korea; [Sohn, Young Kwan] Gyeongsang Natl Univ GNU, Res Inst Nat Sci, Jinju, South Korea; [Ehlert, Maciej; Cendrowska, Marzena] Archeolodzy Org Fdn, Wroclaw, Poland; [Andrieux, Eric; Armitage, Simon J.] Royal Holloway Univ London, Dept Geog, London, England; [Andrieux, Eric] Univ Durham, Dept Archaeol, Durham, England; [Armitage, Simon J.] Univ Bergen, SFF Ctr Early Sapiens Behav SapienCE, Bergen, Norway; [Szmit, Marcin] Gdansk Archaeol Museum, Gdansk, Poland; [Moska, Piotr] Silesian Tech Univ, Inst Phys, Div Geochronol & Isotope Res Environm, Gliwice, Poland; [Jadain, Modather Abdal...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Masojc, Miroslaw,Kim, Ju Yong,Krupa-Kurzynowska, Joanna,et al. The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7-an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan[J]. University of London,2021,16(3).
APA	Masojc, Miroslaw.,Kim, Ju Yong.,Krupa-Kurzynowska, Joanna.,Sohn, Young Kwan.,Ehlert, Maciej.,...&Jadain, Modather Abdalla.(2021).The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7-an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan.PLOS ONE,16(3).
MLA	Masojc, Miroslaw,et al."The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7-an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan".PLOS ONE 16.3(2021).