Reply to Sahle and Gossa: Technology and geochronology at the earliest known Oldowan site at Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia

David R Braun^{1

2}, Vera Aldeias^{2

3}, Will Archer^{2

4}, J Ramon Arrowsmith⁵, Niguss Baraki⁶, Christopher J Campisano⁷, Alan L Deino⁸, Erin N DiMaggio⁹, Guillaume Dupont-Nivet^{10

11}, Blade Engda^{12

13}, David A Feary⁵, Dominique I Garello⁵, Zenash Kerfelew¹², Shannon P McPherron², David B Patterson^{14

15}, Jonathan S Reeves¹⁴, Jessica C Thompson¹⁶, Kaye E Reed⁷

Affiliations

¹ Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; david_braun@gwu.edu.
² Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
³ Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
⁴ Archaeology Department, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, South Africa.
⁵ School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287.
⁶ Department of Archaeology and Heritage Management, Main Campus, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁷ Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287.
⁸ Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709.
⁹ Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
¹⁰ CNRS, Géosciences Rennes-UMR 6118, University of Rennes, F-35000 Rennes, France.
¹¹ Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam University, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
¹² Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
¹³ University of Laboratoire Paléontologie Évolution Paléoécosystémes Paléoprimatologie (UMR 7262), Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
¹⁴ Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052.
¹⁵ Department of Biology, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, GA 30533.
¹⁶ Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.

PMID: 31530722
PMCID: PMC6789629
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1911952116

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Reply to Sahle and Gossa: Technology and geochronology at the earliest known Oldowan site at Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia

David R Braun et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019.

. 2019 Oct 8;116(41):20261-20262.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911952116. Epub 2019 Sep 17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; david_braun@gwu.edu.
² Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
³ Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
⁴ Archaeology Department, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, South Africa.
⁵ School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287.
⁶ Department of Archaeology and Heritage Management, Main Campus, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁷ Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287.
⁸ Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709.
⁹ Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
¹⁰ CNRS, Géosciences Rennes-UMR 6118, University of Rennes, F-35000 Rennes, France.
¹¹ Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam University, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
¹² Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
¹³ University of Laboratoire Paléontologie Évolution Paléoécosystémes Paléoprimatologie (UMR 7262), Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
¹⁴ Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052.
¹⁵ Department of Biology, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, GA 30533.
¹⁶ Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.

PMID: 31530722
PMCID: PMC6789629
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1911952116

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Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity.
Braun DR, Aldeias V, Archer W, Arrowsmith JR, Baraki N, Campisano CJ, Deino AL, DiMaggio EN, Dupont-Nivet G, Engda B, Feary DA, Garello DI, Kerfelew Z, McPherron SP, Patterson DB, Reeves JS, Thompson JC, Reed KE. Braun DR, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jun 11;116(24):11712-11717. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1820177116. Epub 2019 Jun 3. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31160451 Free PMC article.
More data needed for claims about the earliest Oldowan artifacts.
Sahle Y, Gossa T. Sahle Y, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Oct 8;116(41):20259-20260. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911658116. Epub 2019 Sep 17. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31530728 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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