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SUBMITTER: Sano K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7414090 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sano Katsuhiro K Beyene Yonas Y Katoh Shigehiro S Koyabu Daisuke D Endo Hideki H Sasaki Tomohiko T Asfaw Berhane B Suwa Gen G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200713 31
In the past decade, the early Acheulean before 1 Mya has been a focus of active research. Acheulean lithic assemblages have been shown to extend back to ∼1.75 Mya, and considerable advances in core reduction technologies are seen by 1.5 to 1.4 Mya. Here we report a bifacially flaked bone fragment (maximum dimension ∼13 cm) of a hippopotamus femur from the ∼1.4 Mya sediments of the Konso Formation in southern Ethiopia. The large number of flake scars and their distribution pattern, together with ...[more]