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1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria
Mohamed Sahnouni
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Josep M. Parés
2
Mathieu Duval
3
Isabel Cáceres
4
Zoheir Harichane
2
Jan van der Made
Salah Abdessadok
3
Nadia Kandi
Abdelkader Derradji
Mohamed Medig
Kamel Boulaghraif
Sileshi Semaw
Alfredo Perez-Gonzalez
Alfredo Perez-Gonzalez
Author
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CNRPAH - Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (Alger - Algeria)
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HNHP - Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (Institut de Paléontologie Humaine - 1, rue René Panhard - 75013 Paris - France)
- MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (57, rue Cuvier - 75231 Paris Cedex 05 - France)
- UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (52 avenue Paul Alduy - 66860 Perpignan Cedex 9 - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7194 (France)
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Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain - Spain)
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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- DOI : 10.1126/science.aau0008
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Mohamed Sahnouni, Josep M. Parés, Mathieu Duval, Isabel Cáceres, Zoheir Harichane, et al.. 1.9-million- and 2.4-million-year-old artifacts and stone tool–cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, Wiley, 2018, 33 (5), pp.594-604. ⟨10.1126/science.aau0008⟩. ⟨halshs-02169765⟩
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