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

Published:2018-12-14 Issue:6420 Volume:362 Page:1297-1301
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Sahnouni Mohamed¹²³^ORCID,Parés Josep M.¹^ORCID,Duval Mathieu¹⁴^ORCID,Cáceres Isabel⁵⁶^ORCID,Harichane Zoheir²⁷^ORCID,van der Made Jan⁸^ORCID,Pérez-González Alfredo¹,Abdessadok Salah²⁹^ORCID,Kandi Nadia¹⁰^ORCID,Derradji Abdelkader²¹¹^ORCID,Medig Mohamed¹¹^ORCID,Boulaghraif Kamel²¹²^ORCID,Semaw Sileshi¹³

Affiliation:

1. Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain.

2. Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH), Algiers, Algeria.

3. Stone Age Institute and Anthropology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.

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

5. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.

6. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Tarragona, Spain.

7. Musée National du Bardo, Algiers, Algeria.

8. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

9. Département Homme et Environnement, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France.

10. Département d’Archéologie, Université Lamine Debaghine Sétif 2, Sétif, Algeria.

11. Institut d’Archéologie, Université Alger 2, Algiers, Algeria.

12. Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Degli Studi di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.

Abstract

Early humans in northern Africa Evidence for the earliest stone tools produced by human ancestors (from ∼2.6 million years ago) has hitherto come from East Africa. Sahnouni et al. report the discovery of Oldowan stone artifacts and associated cutmarks on fossil bones excavated in Algeria, with the earliest dated to 2.4 million years ago. Thus, hominins inhabited the Mediterranean fringe in North Africa earlier than commonly believed. Furthermore, either stone tool manufacture and use dispersed early from East Africa or stone tool manufacture and use originated in both North and East Africa. Science , this issue p. 1297

Funder

National Science Foundation

Wenner-Gren Foundation

FP7 Ideas: European Research Council

Australian Research Council

MINECO, Spain

MINECO

The LSB Leakey Foundation

CNRPAH, Algeria

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject