On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results

Mathieu Duval; Mohamed Sahnouni; Josep M Parés; Jian-Xin Zhao; Rainer Grün; Salah Abdessadok; Alfredo Pérez-González; Abdelkader Derradji; Zoheir Harichane; Nacim Mazouni; Kamel Boulaghraief; Razika Chelli Cheheb; Jan van der Made

doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103371

On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results

J Hum Evol. 2023 Jul:180:103371. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103371. Epub 2023 May 12.

Authors

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¹ Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca 3, 09002 Burgos, Spain; Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia; Palaeoscience Labs, Dept. Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Bundoora, 3086 Victoria, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca 3, 09002 Burgos, Spain; Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH), 3 rue Franklin Roosevelt, 16015 Algiers, Algeria; Stone Age Institute, 1392 W Dittemore Rd, Gosport, IN 47433, USA; Anthropology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
³ Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca 3, 09002 Burgos, Spain.
⁴ Radiogenic Isotope Facility, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
⁵ Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools", University of Tübingen, D-72070 Tübingen, Germany.
⁶ Histoire Naturelle de l'Homme Préhistorique (HNHP), UMR7194, Département Homme & Environnement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, 1, rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris, France.
⁷ Instituto de Evolución en África (IDEA), Fundación General de la UAH, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
⁸ Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH), 3 rue Franklin Roosevelt, 16015 Algiers, Algeria; Institut d'Archéologie, Université Alger 2, 02 Avenue Djamel Eddine el Afghani, 16032 Bouzareah, Algiers, Algeria.
⁹ Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH), 3 rue Franklin Roosevelt, 16015 Algiers, Algeria; Musée Public National du Bardo, 3 rue Franklin Roosevelt, 16015 Algiers, Algeria.
¹⁰ Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH), 3 rue Franklin Roosevelt, 16015 Algiers, Algeria; Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Dept. d'Història i Història de l'Art, Fac. de Lletres, Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain.
¹¹ Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH), 3 rue Franklin Roosevelt, 16015 Algiers, Algeria.
¹² Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), c. José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.

PMID: 37178466
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103371

No abstract available

Keywords: Early Pleistocene; Electron spin resonance dating; North Africa; Oldowan assemblage; Optically-bleached quartz grains.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algeria
Animals
Archaeology
Fossils
Hominidae*
Paleontology