ECOLOGICAL AND TEMPORAL PLACEMENT OF EARLY PLIOCENE HOMINIDS AT ARAMIS, ETHIOPIA

Authors
WOLDEGABRIEL G WHITE TD SUWA G RENNE P DEHEINZELIN J HART WK HEIKEN G
Citation
G. Woldegabriel et al., ECOLOGICAL AND TEMPORAL PLACEMENT OF EARLY PLIOCENE HOMINIDS AT ARAMIS, ETHIOPIA, Nature, 371(6495), 1994, pp. 330-333
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Nature → ACNP
ISSN journal
00280836
Volume
371
Issue
6495
Year of publication
1994
Pages
330 - 333
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-0836(1994)371:6495<330:EATPOE>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
SEDIMENTARY deposits in the Middle Awash research area of Ethiopia's A far depression have yielded vertebrate fossils including the most anci ent hominids known. Radioisotopic dating, geochemical analysis of inte rbedded volcanic ashes and biochronological considerations place the h ominid-bearing deposits at around 4.4 million years of age. Sedimentol ogical, botanical and faunal evidence suggests a wooded habitat for th e Aramis hominids.