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Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia):

LA113572

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia):

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Implications for the Understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa

Alice Leplongeon, David Pleurdeau, Erella Hovers

Leiden

Brill

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.

2017

202-233

Journal of African Archaeology

15/2

2191-5784

African Studies

Archaeology

Art History

Ethiopia

General

Goda Buticha

Late Stone Age

Lithic technology

Middle Stone Age

Alice Leplongeon

David Pleurdeau

Erella Hovers

10.1163/21915784-12340010

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