Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and <i>Paranthropus</i>-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus

Published:2023-02-10 Issue:6632 Volume:379 Page:561-566
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Plummer Thomas W.¹²³⁴^ORCID,Oliver James S.⁵,Finestone Emma M.⁶⁷^ORCID,Ditchfield Peter W.⁸^ORCID,Bishop Laura C.⁹¹⁰^ORCID,Blumenthal Scott A.⁴¹¹¹²^ORCID,Lemorini Cristina¹³^ORCID,Caricola Isabella¹³¹⁴^ORCID,Bailey Shara E.³¹⁵^ORCID,Herries Andy I. R.¹⁶¹⁷^ORCID,Parkinson Jennifer A.⁴¹⁸,Whitfield Elizabeth⁹,Hertel Fritz¹⁹^ORCID,Kinyanjui Rahab N.⁴²⁰²¹^ORCID,Vincent Thomas H.⁹,Li Youjuan²²²³^ORCID,Louys Julien²⁴^ORCID,Frost Stephen R.¹¹,Braun David R.²⁵²⁶^ORCID,Reeves Jonathan S.²⁶^ORCID,Early Emily D. G.⁴²⁷^ORCID,Onyango Blasto²⁰,Lamela-Lopez Raquel²³^ORCID,Forrest Frances L.²⁸²⁹^ORCID,He Huaiyu³⁰,Lane Timothy P.⁹^ORCID,Frouin Marine³¹^ORCID,Nomade Sébastien³²³³,Wilson Evan P.²³,Bartilol Simion K.³⁴^ORCID,Rotich Nelson Kiprono³⁵^ORCID,Potts Richard⁴²⁰^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Anthropology, Queens College, Flushing, NY, USA.

2. The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA.

3. New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, NY, USA.

4. Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.

5. Anthropology Section, Illinois State Museum Springfield, IL, USA.

6. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH, USA.

7. Department of Archeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.

8. School of Archeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

9. Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Paleoecology, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.

10. The Sino-British College, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.

11. Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.

12. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

13. LTFAPA Laboratory, Department of Classics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

14. School of History, Classics and Archeology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

15. Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.

16. The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, Dept. Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, 3086 Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.

17. Paleo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.

18. Department of Anthropology, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.

19. Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA.

20. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.

21. Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.

22. Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

23. Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China.

24. Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

25. Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

26. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

27. Arizona Museum of Natural History, Mesa, AZ, USA.

28. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, USA.

29. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA.

30. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

31. Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.

32. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin and Paris Saclay, Gif Sur Yvette, France.

33. Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Guyancourt, France.

34. Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.

35. Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw, Poland.

Abstract

The oldest Oldowan tool sites, from around 2.6 million years ago, have previously been confined to Ethiopia’s Afar Triangle. We describe sites at Nyayanga, Kenya, dated to 3.032 to 2.581 million years ago and expand this distribution by over 1300 kilometers. Furthermore, we found two hippopotamid butchery sites associated with mosaic vegetation and a C 4 grazer–dominated fauna. Tool flaking proficiency was comparable with that of younger Oldowan assemblages, but pounding activities were more common. Tool use-wear and bone damage indicate plant and animal tissue processing. Paranthropus sp. teeth, the first from southwestern Kenya, possessed carbon isotopic values indicative of a diet rich in C 4 foods. We argue that the earliest Oldowan was more widespread than previously known, used to process diverse foods including megafauna, and associated with Paranthropus from its onset.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.abo7452

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