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

Götz OssendorfInstitute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Cologne, GermanyAlexander Raphael GroosInstitute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandTobias BrommDepartment of Soil Biogeochemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), GermanyMinassie Girma TekelemariamInstitute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Cologne, GermanyBruno GlaserDepartment of Soil Biogeochemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), GermanyJoséphine LesurMNHN/CNRS–UMR 7209 Archaeozoology, Archaeobotany Laboratory (AASPE), Paris, FranceJoachim SchmidtInstitute of Biosciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, GermanyNaki AkçarInstitute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandTamrat BekeleDepartment of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaAlemseged BeldadosDepartment of Archaeology and Heritage Management, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaSebsebe DemissewDepartment of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaTrhas Hadush KahsaySchool of Earth Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaBarbara P. NashDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAThomas NaußFaculty of Geography, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, GermanyAgazi NegashPaleoanthropology and Paleoenvironment Program, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaSileshi NemomissaDepartment of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaHeinz VeitInstitute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandRalf VogelsangInstitute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Cologne, GermanyZerihun WolduDepartment of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaWolfgang ZechInstitute of Soil Science and Soil Geography, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, GermanyLars OpgenoorthDepartment of Ecology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, GermanyGeorg MieheFaculty of Geography, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

2019en

ABI

Аннотация

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.

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DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw8942

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