H. Ron et S. Levi, When did hominids first leave Africa?: New high-resolution magnetostratigraphy from the Erk-el-Ahmar Formation, Israel, GEOLOGY, 29(10), 2001, pp. 887-890
New paleomagnetic results from the Erk-el-Ahmar Formation, Israel, resolve
age ambiguities of one of the oldest hominid sites outside Africa, where an
cient Oldowan tools and artifacts were excavated. We identified in the sect
ion the upper and lower boundaries of the Olduvai subchron, and we conclude
that these sediments were deposited between ca. 1.7 and 2.0 Ma. This resul
t is consistent with the hypothesis that earliest hominid migrations from A
frica to Eurasia during the early Paleolithic traversed the Levantine corri
dor.