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SUBMITTER: Braun DR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2890426 | biostudies-other | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Braun David R DR Harris John W K JW Levin Naomi E NE McCoy Jack T JT Herries Andy I R AI Bamford Marion K MK Bishop Laura C LC Richmond Brian G BG Kibunjia Mzalendo M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100601 22
The manufacture of stone tools and their use to access animal tissues by Pliocene hominins marks the origin of a key adaptation in human evolutionary history. Here we report an in situ archaeological assemblage from the Koobi Fora Formation in northern Kenya that provides a unique combination of faunal remains, some with direct evidence of butchery, and Oldowan artifacts, which are well dated to 1.95 Ma. This site provides the oldest in situ evidence that hominins, predating Homo erectus, enjoye ...[more]