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3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya.
Harmand, Sonia; Lewis, Jason E; Feibel, Craig S; Lepre, Christopher J; Prat, Sandrine; Lenoble, Arnaud; Boës, Xavier; Quinn, Rhonda L; Brenet, Michel; Arroyo, Adrian; Taylor, Nicholas; Clément, Sophie; Daver, Guillaume; Brugal, Jean-Philip; Leakey, Louise; Mortlock, Richard A; Wright, James D; Lokorodi, Sammy; Kirwa, Christopher; Kent, Dennis V; Roche, Hélène.
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  • Harmand S; 1] Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-4364, USA [2] CNRS, UMR 7055, Préhistoire et Technologie, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 21 allée de l'Université, 92023 Nanterre Cedex, France [3] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100,
  • Lewis JE; 1] Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-4364, USA [2] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya [3] Department of Anthropology and Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08
  • Feibel CS; 1] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya [2] Department of Anthropology and Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA [3] Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, Ne
  • Lepre CJ; 1] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya [2] Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA [3] Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964, USA.
  • Prat S; 1] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya [2] CNRS, UPR 2147, Dynamique de l'Evolution Humaine, 44 rue de l'Amiral Mouchez, 75014 Paris, France.
  • Lenoble A; 1] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya [2] CNRS, UMR 5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, 33615 Pessac, France.
  • Boës X; 1] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya [2] CNRS, UPR 2147, Dynamique de l'Evolution Humaine, 44 rue de l'Amiral Mouchez, 75014 Paris, France.
  • Quinn RL; 1] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya [2] Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA [3] Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey 0707
  • Brenet M; 1] CNRS, UMR 5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, 33615 Pessac, France [2] Inrap, Centre Mixte de Recherche Archéologique, Domaine de Campagne, 24620 Campagne, France.
  • Arroyo A; CNRS, UMR 7055, Préhistoire et Technologie, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 21 allée de l'Université, 92023 Nanterre Cedex, France.
  • Taylor N; 1] CNRS, UMR 7055, Préhistoire et Technologie, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 21 allée de l'Université, 92023 Nanterre Cedex, France [2] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Clément S; 1] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya [2] Inrap, 34-36 avenue Paul-Vaillant Couturier, 93120 La Courneuve, France.
  • Daver G; IPHEP, Institut de Paléoprimatologie, Paléontologie Humaine: Évolution et Paléoenvironnements, CNRS, UMR 7262, Université de Poitiers, Bât. B35 - TSA 51106, 6 rue Michel Brunet, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France.
  • Brugal JP; 1] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya [2] Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, MCC, UMR 7269, LAMPEA, 13094 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 2, France.
  • Leakey L; Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-4364, USA.
  • Mortlock RA; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
  • Wright JD; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
  • Lokorodi S; West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Kirwa C; 1] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya [2] National Museums of Kenya, Department of Earth Sciences, Archaeology Section, P.O. Box 40658-00100 Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Kent DV; 1] Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA [2] Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964, USA.
  • Roche H; 1] CNRS, UMR 7055, Préhistoire et Technologie, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 21 allée de l'Université, 92023 Nanterre Cedex, France [2] West Turkana Archaeological Project, P.O. Box 40658-00100, Ngara Rd, Nairobi, Kenya.
Nature ; 521(7552): 310-5, 2015 May 21.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25993961
ABSTRACT
Human evolutionary scholars have long supposed that the earliest stone tools were made by the genus Homo and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands. New fieldwork in West Turkana, Kenya, has identified evidence of much earlier hominin technological behaviour. We report the discovery of Lomekwi 3, a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site where in situ stone artefacts occur in spatiotemporal association with Pliocene hominin fossils in a wooded palaeoenvironment. The Lomekwi 3 knappers, with a developing understanding of stone's fracture properties, combined core reduction with battering activities. Given the implications of the Lomekwi 3 assemblage for models aiming to converge environmental change, hominin evolution and technological origins, we propose for it the name 'Lomekwian', which predates the Oldowan by 700,000 years and marks a new beginning to the known archaeological record.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Hominidae / Comportamento de Utilização de Ferramentas Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Animals País/Região como assunto: Africa Idioma: En Revista: Nature Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Hominidae / Comportamento de Utilização de Ferramentas Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Animals País/Região como assunto: Africa Idioma: En Revista: Nature Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article