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JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages 235-244Publisher
AFRICA MAGNA VERLAG
DOI: 10.1163/21915784-20210003
Keywords
Sudan; EDAR; Pleistocene; Acheulean; MSA; OSL
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- National Science Centre in Poland [NCN 2015/19/B/HS3/03562]
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The research note presents evidence of the oldest Middle Pleistocene human activity in the Eastern Desert Atbara River (EDAR) area in Sudan, with preliminary results indicating Homo sapiens activity during MIS 5 and Homo erectus activity during MIS 7-n or earlier.
This research note presents evidence for the oldest Middle Pleistocene Eastern Saharan human activity from the area referred to as the Eastern Desert Atbara River (EDAR), Sudan, which is currently threatened by gold mining. Preliminary results of multifaceted analyses indicate the activity of Homo sapiens during MIS 5 as well as Homo erectus during MIS 7-n or earlier.
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