1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria

E. Campmas; E. Stoetzel; C. Denys; Philippe Charlier; Nadia Benmoussa; Philippe Froesch; Isabelle Charlier; Antoine Balzeau; Alfredo Mayoral; Jean-Luc Peiry; Jean-François Berger; Paul Ledger; Bruno Depreux; François-Xavier Simon; Pierre-Yves Milcent; Matthieu Poux; Franck Vautier; Yannick Miras

1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria

E. Campmas E. Stoetzel ¹ C. Denys ² Philippe Charlier ³ Nadia Benmoussa ⁴ Philippe Froesch Isabelle Charlier ⁵ Antoine Balzeau ⁶ Alfredo Mayoral ⁷ Jean-Luc Peiry ⁷ Jean-François Berger ⁸ Paul Ledger ⁷ Bruno Depreux ⁹ François-Xavier Simon ¹⁰ Pierre-Yves Milcent ¹¹ Matthieu Poux ⁹ Franck Vautier ¹² Yannick Miras ⁷

1 MNHN - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

2 Origine, structure et évolution de la biodiversité

3 HALMA - Histoire Archéologie Littérature des Mondes Anciens (HALMA) - UMR 8164

4 Section of Medical and Forensic Anthropology

5 IMB - Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux

6 HQMC - Les hominidés au quaternaire : milieux et comportements

7 GEOLAB - Laboratoire de Géographie Physique et Environnementale

8 EVS - Environnement Ville Société

9 ArAr - Archéologie et Archéométrie

10 SISYPHE - Structure et fonctionnement des systèmes hydriques continentaux

11 AOROC - Archéologies d'Orient et d'Occident et Sciences des textes

12 MSH Clermont - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme - Clermont Ferrand

Abstract : East Africa has provided the earliest known evidence for Oldowan stone artifacts and hominin-induced stone tool cutmarks dated to ~2.6 million years (Ma) ago. The ~1.8-million- year-old stone artifacts from Ain Hanech (Algeria) were considered to represent the oldest archaeological materials in North Africa. Here we report older stone artifacts and cutmarked bones excavated from two nearby deposits at Ain Boucherit estimated to ~1.9 Ma ago, and the older to ~2.4 Ma ago. Hence, the Ain Boucherit evidence shows that ancestral hominins inhabited the Mediterranean fringe in northern Africa much earlier than previously thought. The evidence strongly argues for early dispersal of stone tool manufacture and use from East Africa or a possible multiple-origin scenario of stone technology in both East and North Afri

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Humanities and Social Sciences / Archaeology and Prehistory

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1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria

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