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" Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia): "
Alice Leplongeon, David Pleurdeau, Erella Hovers
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AL
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1069943
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LA113572
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10.1163/21915784-12340010
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English
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Alice Leplongeon
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David Pleurdeau
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Erella Hovers
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Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia): [Article] : Implications for the Understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa\ Alice Leplongeon, David Pleurdeau, Erella Hovers
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Leiden: Brill
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Journal of African Archaeology
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2017
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15/2
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202–233
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The Late Pleistocene is a key period to understand the shift from the Middle (msa) to the Late Stone Age (lsa) in Africa. More generally, it is also a crucial time for elucidation of changes in the technological behaviours of human populations in Africa after the main Out of Africa event of modern humans ca. 60-50 thousand years ago. However, the archaeological record for this period is relatively poor, particularly for the Horn of Africa. Here we present a detailed analysis of the lithic assemblages from Goda Buticha (gb), a cave in southeastern Ethiopia, which has yielded a long stratigraphic sequence including Late Pleistocene and Holocene levels. This study (1) contributes to a better knowledge of the late msa in the Horn of Africa; (2) documents a late Holocene lsa level (gb – Complex i); (3) highlights the presence of msa characteristics associated with lsa features in the Holocene (gb – Layer iic). This adds to the emerging record of great lithic technological variability during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene in this region. The Late Pleistocene is a key period to understand the shift from the Middle (msa) to the Late Stone Age (lsa) in Africa. More generally, it is also a crucial time for elucidation of changes in the technological behaviours of human populations in Africa after the main Out of Africa event of modern humans ca. 60-50 thousand years ago. However, the archaeological record for this period is relatively poor, particularly for the Horn of Africa. Here we present a detailed analysis of the lithic assemblages from Goda Buticha (gb), a cave in southeastern Ethiopia, which has yielded a long stratigraphic sequence including Late Pleistocene and Holocene levels. This study (1) contributes to a better knowledge of the late msa in the Horn of Africa; (2) documents a late Holocene lsa level (gb – Complex i); (3) highlights the presence of msa characteristics associated with lsa features in the Holocene (gb – Layer iic). This adds to the emerging record of great lithic technological variability during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene in this region.
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African Studies
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Archaeology
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Art History
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Ethiopia
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General
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Goda Buticha
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Late Stone Age
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Lithic technology
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Middle Stone Age
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10.1163/21915784-12340010
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