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QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
卷 266, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107025
关键词
Geochronology; Optically stimulated luminescence; OSL; Quartz; Radiocarbon; 40Ar/39Ar dating; SCTF; Tephrochronology; Quaternary; Ethiopia
资金
- EPMA
- Leverhulme Trust
- ICDP
- NSF [EAR1338553, BCS-1322017, EAR-2020044]
- NERC [NE/K014560/1]
- DFG [SPP 1006, SCHA 472/13, SCHA 472/18, TR 419/8,/10, TR 419/8,/16, CRC 806, 57444011]
Dating a composite sediment core from Chew Bahir in south Ethiopia reveals a high-resolution lacustrine sediment record that spans the entire timescale of modern human evolution and dispersal, providing important insights into environmental change and hominin evolutionary adaptation.
Despite eastern Africa being a key location in the emergence of Homo sapiens and their subsequent dispersal out of Africa, there is a paucity of long, well-dated climate records in the region to contextualize this history. To address this issue, we dated a similar to 293 m long composite sediment core from Chew Bahir, south Ethiopia, using three independent chronometers (radiocarbon, 40Ar/39Ar, and optically stimulated luminescence) combined with geochemical correlation to a known-age tephra. The site is located in a climatically sensitive region, and is close to Omo Kibish, the earliest documented Homo sapiens fossil site in eastern Africa, and to the proposed dispersal routes for H. sapiens out of Africa. The 30 ages generated by the various techniques are internally consistent, stratigraphically coherent, and span the full range of the core depth. A Bayesian age-depth model developed using these ages results in a chronology that forms one of the longest independently dated, high-resolution lacustrine sediment records from eastern Africa. The chronology illustrates that any record of environmental change preserved in the composite sediment core from Chew Bahir would span the entire timescale of modern human evolution and dispersal, encompassing the time period of the transition from Acheulean to Middle Stone Age (MSA), and subsequently to Later Stone Age (LSA) technology, making the core well-placed to address questions regarding environmental change and hominin evolutionary adaptation. The benefits to such studies of direct dating and the use of multiple independent chronometers are discussed. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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