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1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria
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
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02169765
Contributor : Anne-Lise Millan-Brun <>
Submitted on : Monday, July 1, 2019 - 2:49:19 PM
Last modification on : Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 3:56:02 PM
Contributor : Anne-Lise Millan-Brun <>
Submitted on : Monday, July 1, 2019 - 2:49:19 PM
Last modification on : Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 3:56:02 PM
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