New excavations at the HWK EE site: Archaeology, paleoenvironment and site formation processes during late Oldowan times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
| العنوان: | New excavations at the HWK EE site: Archaeology, paleoenvironment and site formation processes during late Oldowan times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
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| المؤلفون: | Karol Wehr, Lindsay J. McHenry, Jackson K. Njau, Rafael Mora, Rosa M. Albert, Ágata Rodríguez-Cintas, Carlos A. Rivera-Rondón, Adrián Arroyo, Harald Stollhofen, Richard I. Macphail, Ian G. Stanistreet, Ignacio de la Torre, Michael C. Pante |
| المساهمون: | Universitat de Barcelona |
| المصدر: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname Dipòsit Digital de la UB Universidad de Barcelona |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Arqueologia del paisatge, Technology, 010506 paleontology, Early Pleistocene, Taphonomy, Olduvai Gorge, Gorja d'Olduvai (Tanzània), Environment, Tanzania, 01 natural sciences, Paleontology, Cultural Evolution, Animals, Assemblage (archaeology), 0601 history and archaeology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, 060101 anthropology, Fossils, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania), Environmental archaeology, Hominidae, Excavation, 06 humanities and the arts, Tanzània, Archaeology, Arqueologia ambiental, Landscape archaeology, Anthropology, Paleoecology, Oldowan, Acheulean, Geology |
| الوصف: | This paper reports the results of renewed fieldwork at the HWK EE site (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). HWK EE is positioned across the boundary between Lower and Middle Bed II, a crucial interval for studying the emergence of the Acheulean at Olduvai Gorge. Our excavations at HWK EE have produced one of the largest collections of fossils and artefacts from any Oldowan site, distributed across several archaeological units and a large excavation surface in four separate trenches that can be stratigraphically correlated. Here we present the main stratigraphic and archaeological units and discuss site formation processes. Results show a great density of fossils and stone tools vertically through two stratigraphic intervals (Lemuta and Lower Augitic Sandstone) and laterally across an area of around 300 m2, and highlight the confluence of biotic and abiotic agents in the formation of the assemblage. The large size and diversity of the assemblage, as well as its good preservation, qualify HWK EE as a reference site for the study of the late Oldowan at Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere in Africa. In addition, the description of the stratigraphic and archaeological sequence of HWK EE presented in this paper constitutes the foundation for further studies on hominin behavior and paleoecology in Lower and Middle Bed II. |
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| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....37292d1d990ced877a6f71f95b024e9a |
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