The Buia-Dandero area (100 km south of Massawa, northern Danakil Depression, Eritrea; Fig. 1A) is well known for the 1-million-year-old Homo cranium from Buia. The Early-to-Middle Pleistocene stratigraphic series of the Dandero basin, located near the Buia village, presents about 1 km of continental deposits. The investigated area yielded hominin remains, abundant fossil vertebrates, and a rich archaeological record of Mode 1 (Oldowan) and Mode 2 (Acheulean) tool industries in a late Early Pleistocene chronological framework. The age of the Homo-bearing sediments (Alat Formation) of the Buia sedimentary succession, established by different investigative approaches, falls within the Jaramillo Subchron (C1r.1n), close to 1.0 Ma. In addition to the hominin remains, non-human primates are solely represented in the Buia faunal assemblage (Alat Formation) by a large cercopithecoid cranial fragment, tentatively listed in the Buia mammal fauna (Martínez-Navarro et al., 2004) as Theropithecus cf. Theropithecus oswaldi. The genus Theropithecus is very common in the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa, occurring at sites in North, East and South Africa, within a time span ranging from 3.4 Ma to 0.5 Ma. We provide here a description of the specimen (UA-463), which is housed in the Paleontological collections of the National Museum of Eritrea (Asmara).

Stratigraphic context and taxonomic assignment of the large cercopithecoid (Primates, Mammalia) from the late early Pleistocene palaeoanthropological site of Buia (Eritrea) / Rook L.; Ghinassi M.; Libsekal Y.; Medin T.; Martínez-Navarro B.; Papini M.. - In: JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION. - ISSN 0047-2484. - STAMPA. - 59:(2010), pp. 692-697. [10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.07.018]

Stratigraphic context and taxonomic assignment of the large cercopithecoid (Primates, Mammalia) from the late early Pleistocene palaeoanthropological site of Buia (Eritrea)

ROOK, LORENZO;PAPINI, MAURO
2010

Abstract

The Buia-Dandero area (100 km south of Massawa, northern Danakil Depression, Eritrea; Fig. 1A) is well known for the 1-million-year-old Homo cranium from Buia. The Early-to-Middle Pleistocene stratigraphic series of the Dandero basin, located near the Buia village, presents about 1 km of continental deposits. The investigated area yielded hominin remains, abundant fossil vertebrates, and a rich archaeological record of Mode 1 (Oldowan) and Mode 2 (Acheulean) tool industries in a late Early Pleistocene chronological framework. The age of the Homo-bearing sediments (Alat Formation) of the Buia sedimentary succession, established by different investigative approaches, falls within the Jaramillo Subchron (C1r.1n), close to 1.0 Ma. In addition to the hominin remains, non-human primates are solely represented in the Buia faunal assemblage (Alat Formation) by a large cercopithecoid cranial fragment, tentatively listed in the Buia mammal fauna (Martínez-Navarro et al., 2004) as Theropithecus cf. Theropithecus oswaldi. The genus Theropithecus is very common in the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa, occurring at sites in North, East and South Africa, within a time span ranging from 3.4 Ma to 0.5 Ma. We provide here a description of the specimen (UA-463), which is housed in the Paleontological collections of the National Museum of Eritrea (Asmara).
2010
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692
697
Rook L.; Ghinassi M.; Libsekal Y.; Medin T.; Martínez-Navarro B.; Papini M.
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