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

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

Beteiligte: Ossendorf, Götz; Groos, Alexander R.; Bromm, Tobias; Tekelemariam, Minassie Girma; Glaser, Bruno; Lesur, Joséphine; Schmidt, Joachim; Akçar, Naki; Bekele, Tamrat; Beldados, Alemseged; Demissew, Sebsebe; Kahsay, Trhas Hadush; Nash, Barbara P.; Nauss, Thomas; Negash, Agazi; Nemomissa, Sileshi; Veit, Heinz; Vogelsang, Ralf; Woldu, Zerihun; Zech, Wolfgang; Opgenoorth, Lars; Miehe, Georg

Erschienen: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw8942

ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203

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Beschreibung: 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

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