When did hominids first leave Africa?: New high-resolution magnetostratigraphy from the Erk-el-Ahmar Formation, Israel

Authors
Citation
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
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Earth Sciences
Journal title
GEOLOGY
ISSN journal
00917613 → ACNP
Volume
29
Issue
10
Year of publication
2001
Pages
887 - 890
Database
ISI
SICI code
0091-7613(200110)29:10<887:WDHFLA>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
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.