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Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

Published:2019-08-09 Issue:6453 Volume:365 Page:583-587
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Ossendorf Götz¹^ORCID,Groos Alexander R.²^ORCID,Bromm Tobias³^ORCID,Tekelemariam Minassie Girma¹,Glaser Bruno³^ORCID,Lesur Joséphine⁴^ORCID,Schmidt Joachim⁵^ORCID,Akçar Naki⁶^ORCID,Bekele Tamrat⁷,Beldados Alemseged⁸,Demissew Sebsebe⁷^ORCID,Kahsay Trhas Hadush⁹,Nash Barbara P.¹⁰^ORCID,Nauss Thomas¹¹^ORCID,Negash Agazi¹²,Nemomissa Sileshi⁷,Veit Heinz²,Vogelsang Ralf¹^ORCID,Woldu Zerihun⁷^ORCID,Zech Wolfgang¹³,Opgenoorth Lars¹⁴¹⁵^ORCID,Miehe Georg¹¹

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

2. Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

3. Department of Soil Biogeochemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.

4. MNHN/CNRS–UMR 7209 Archaeozoology, Archaeobotany Laboratory (AASPE), Paris, France.

5. Institute of Biosciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.

6. Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

7. Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

8. Department of Archaeology and Heritage Management, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

9. School of Earth Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

10. Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

11. Faculty of Geography, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.

12. Paleoanthropology and Paleoenvironment Program, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

13. Institute of Soil Science and Soil Geography, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.

14. Department of Ecology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.

15. Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

Abstract

Middle Stone Age humans in high-altitude Africa Recent archaeological research has produced evidence of the earliest human occupation of high-altitude habitats in the Andes and the Tibetan Plateau. Ossendorf et al. now present the oldest evidence of human settlement and adaptation to areas above 4000-meter elevation in Africa (see the Perspective by Aldenderfer). Their excavations at a rock shelter in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia reveal obsidian artifacts and faunal remains, including abundant burnt bones, mostly of giant mole-rats. The findings reveal the environmental conditions and show how Late Pleistocene humans adapted to the harsh environments of these glaciated high-altitude African landscapes. Science , this issue p. 583 ; see also p. 541

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Swiss National Science Foundation

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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