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The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula

Nature volume 360, pages 732–735 (1992)Cite this article

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KONSO-GARDULA is a palaeoanthropological area discovered by the 1991 Palaeoanthropological Inventory of Ethiopia1–5 in the southern Main Ethiopian Rift. The Konso-Gardula sediments span the period about 1.3–1.9 million years ago. They contain rich Acheulean archaeological occurrences. Vertebrate fossils include early Homo.

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  • 01 March 1993

    Nature 360, 732-735 (1992) THE cat specimen featured on the cover of the issue of 24/31 December 1992, originally referred to Homotherium as detailed in the cover caption, was changed to Dinofelis sp. aff. piveteaui while the paper was in press. The cover shows the cranium listed as Dinofelis in Table 2 of this letter.

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  1. Palaeoanthropology Laboratory, Ministry of Culture, PO Box 5717, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Berhane Asfaw & Yonas Beyene

  2. Department of Anthropology, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Hongo, 113, Tokyo, Japan

    Gen Suwa

  3. Geochronology Center, Institute of Human Origins, 2453 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California, 94709, USA

    Robert C. Walter

  4. Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    Tim D. White

  5. EES-1/D462, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA

    Giday WoldeGabriel

  6. Department of Earth Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011, USA

    Tesfaye Yemane

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Asfaw, B., Beyene, Y., Suwa, G. et al. The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula. Nature 360, 732–735 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/360732a0

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