Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago

Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania is a key site for understanding early human evolution. Here, the authors report a multiproxy dataset from the Western basin of Oldupai Gorge dating to 2 million years ago, enabling the in situ comparison of lithic assemblages, paleoenvironments and hominin behavioral adaptabi...

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Main Authors: Julio Mercader, Pam Akuku, Nicole Boivin, Revocatus Bugumba, Pastory Bushozi, Alfredo Camacho, Tristan Carter, Siobhán Clarke, Arturo Cueva-Temprana, Paul Durkin, Julien Favreau, Kelvin Fella, Simon Haberle, Stephen Hubbard, Jamie Inwood, Makarius Itambu, Samson Koromo, Patrick Lee, Abdallah Mohammed, Aloyce Mwambwiga, Lucas Olesilau, Robert Patalano, Patrick Roberts, Susan Rule, Palmira Saladie, Gunnar Siljedal, María Soto, Jonathan Umbsaar, Michael Petraglia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20176-2