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Archaeological Occurrences of Early Pleistocene Age from the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia

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Stone artefacts have been excavated from stratified contexts in the upper members of the Shungura Formation. One occupation site and several secondarily-derived concentrations of artefacts were found. Potassium-argon age determinations for these occurrences indicate an age of approximately 2.0 million years. The artefacts recovered offer a contrast to those known from Lower Pleistocene deposits at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and from still older deposits east of Lake Rudolf in Kenya.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

    H. V. MERRICK

  2. Geologisch Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit—Gent, Gent

    J. DE HEINZELIN

  3. Geografisch Instituut, Vrije Universiteit te Brussel, Brussels

    P. HAESAERTS

  4. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

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MERRICK, H., DE HEINZELIN, J., HAESAERTS, P. et al. Archaeological Occurrences of Early Pleistocene Age from the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 242, 572–575 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242572a0

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