Melka Wakena, Ethiopia

Tegenu Gossa; Erella Hovers; Angesom Resom; Asfawossen Asrat; Elizabeth M. Niespolo; Paul R. Renne; Bienvenido Martinez-Navarro

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_27

Melka Wakena, Ethiopia

Tegenu Gossa, Erella Hovers, Angesom Resom, Asfawossen Asrat, Elizabeth M. Niespolo, Paul R. Renne, Bienvenido Martinez-Navarro

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The Melka Wakena site complex is one of the few Acheulian-bearing sites documented in the high elevation setting in eastern Africa. It consists of several spatially segregated localities containing stratified archaeological horizons dated to early to early-middle Pleistocene periods (c. 1.6 to c. 0.8 Ma). Data from the Melka Wakena constitute a significant addition to the relatively small database of hominin highland occupation that promise enhancing our understanding of the patterns of hominin dispersals across the highly diversified paleogeography and paleoecology of eastern Africa and beyond.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa
Subtitle of host publication	Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	451-460
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031202902
ISBN (Print)	9783031202896
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_27
State	Published - Jan 1 2023

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