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Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

Ossendorf, Götz ; Groos, Alexander R ; Bromm, Tobias ; Tekelemariam, Minassie Girma ; Glaser, Bruno ; Lesur, Joséphine ; Schmidt, Joachim ; Akçar, Naki ; Bekele, Tamrat ; Beldados, Alemseged ; Demissew, Sebsebe ; Kahsay, Trhas Hadush ; Nash, Barbara P ; Nauss, Thomas ; Negash, Agazi ; Nemomissa, Sileshi ; Veit, Heinz ; Vogelsang, Ralf ; Woldu, Zerihun ; Zech, Wolfgang ; Opgenoorth, Lars ; Miehe, Georg

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2019-08, Vol.365 (6453), p.583-587 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

United States: The American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
Author: Ossendorf, Götz ; Groos, Alexander R ; Bromm, Tobias ; Tekelemariam, Minassie Girma ; Glaser, Bruno ; Lesur, Joséphine ; Schmidt, Joachim ; Akçar, Naki ; Bekele, Tamrat ; Beldados, Alemseged ; Demissew, Sebsebe ; Kahsay, Trhas Hadush ; Nash, Barbara P ; Nauss, Thomas ; Negash, Agazi ; Nemomissa, Sileshi ; Veit, Heinz ; Vogelsang, Ralf ; Woldu, Zerihun ; Zech, Wolfgang ; Opgenoorth, Lars ; Miehe, Georg
Subjects: Acclimatization - genetics ; Adaptation ; Alpine environments ; Altitude ; Animals ; Archaeology ; Archaeology and Prehistory ; Bones ; Ecosystems ; Elevation ; Environmental conditions ; Ethiopia ; Evidence ; Exploitation ; Food - history ; Food sources ; Foraging habitats ; Harsh environments ; High altitude ; High-altitude environments ; Historic artifacts ; History, Ancient ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; Humans ; Ice Cover ; Land settlement ; Mountains ; Obsidian ; Occupations ; Occupations - history ; Paleontology ; Pleistocene ; Residence Characteristics - history ; Residential location ; Rocks ; Rodentia ; Shelters ; Stone Age
Is Part Of: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2019-08, Vol.365 (6453), p.583-587
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Description: Studies of early human settlement in alpine environments provide insights into human physiological, genetic, and cultural adaptation potentials. Although Late and even Middle Pleistocene human presence has been recently documented on the Tibetan Plateau, little is known regarding the nature and context of early persistent human settlement in high elevations. Here, we report the earliest evidence of a prehistoric high-altitude residential site. Located in Africa's largest alpine ecosystem, the repeated occupation of Fincha Habera rock shelter is dated to 47 to 31 thousand years ago. The available resources in cold and glaciated environments included the exploitation of an endemic rodent as a key food source, and this played a pivotal role in facilitating the occupation of this site by Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers.
Publisher: United States: The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Language: English

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