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" The Oldowan in the Egyptian Nile Valley "
Aboualhassan Bakry, Ahmed Saied, Doaa Ibrahim, et al.
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AL
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1069973
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LA113602
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10.1163/21915784-20200010
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English
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Aboualhassan Bakry
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Ahmed Saied
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Doaa Ibrahim
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The Oldowan in the Egyptian Nile Valley [Article]\ Aboualhassan Bakry, Ahmed Saied, Doaa Ibrahim, et al.
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Leiden: Brill
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Journal of African Archaeology
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2020
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18/2
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229–241
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Although there is no good “Oldowan” record in the Egyptian Nile Valley, the presence of the “Pebble Tools Tradition” is confirmed by surface finds, scattered in the valley and the deserts, recorded through both early and recent excavations, and confirmed by three important stratified sites at Western Thebes, Nag el Amra and Abassieh. Evidence for the existence of the Oldowan complex in Egypt was found, although there was no water corridor connecting the East African highlands to the Mediterranean, as the Proto-Nile had its sources within Egypt itself at the time of the Plio-Pleistocene boundary. The western coast of the Red Sea also should be considered a possible corridor for early Pleistocene hominins. There is still much more research to be done, especially in the Eastern Egyptian Desert and Sinai, to obtain a clearer picture of the scenario that happened during the Plio-Pleistocene episode of hominin dispersal out of Africa. Although there is no good “Oldowan” record in the Egyptian Nile Valley, the presence of the “Pebble Tools Tradition” is confirmed by surface finds, scattered in the valley and the deserts, recorded through both early and recent excavations, and confirmed by three important stratified sites at Western Thebes, Nag el Amra and Abassieh. Evidence for the existence of the Oldowan complex in Egypt was found, although there was no water corridor connecting the East African highlands to the Mediterranean, as the Proto-Nile had its sources within Egypt itself at the time of the Plio-Pleistocene boundary. The western coast of the Red Sea also should be considered a possible corridor for early Pleistocene hominins. There is still much more research to be done, especially in the Eastern Egyptian Desert and Sinai, to obtain a clearer picture of the scenario that happened during the Plio-Pleistocene episode of hominin dispersal out of Africa.
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Abassieh, Western Thebes
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Egypt
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hominin dispersal
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Oldowan
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Plio-Pleistocene
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10.1163/21915784-20200010
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