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T1 Kesem-Kebena-Dulecha Study Area, Ethiopia
A1 Gilbert, William Henry
A1 Doronichev, Vladimir Borisovich
A1 Golovanova, Luibov Vitalyevna
A1 Morgan, Leah Elizabeth
A1 Núñez, Luis
A1 Rodríguez García, Laura
A1 Sala Burgos, Nohemi
A1 Cusimano, Daniel
A1 Gaspar Simón, Ignacio de
A1 Mazza, Paul
A1 García García, Nuria
A2 Beyin, A.
A2 Wright, D.K.
A2 Wilkins, J.
A2 Bouzouggar, A.
A2 Olszewski, D.I
AB In 1988 and 1989, the Paleoanthropological Inventory of Ethiopia (PIE) field expedition discovered numerous localities of prehistoric significance across Ethiopia (WoldeGabriel et al., 1992). One of the regions surveyed by the Inventory team was the Dulecha administrative district (Gabi Rasu), Afar Zone (Fig. 1). The surveyed area (geographic reference: 9.407° N, 40.057° E) includes the watershed vicinity of the Kesem and Kebena Rivers (tributaries of the Awash River) where Plio-Pleistocene outcrops flank the Awash floodplain parallel to the river and west of the Dofan Volcano. The Fentale Vlcano lies SSW of the Kesem-Kebena-Dulecha area, immediately south of where the Main Ethiopian Rift opens into a floodplain, and offset drainages north of the Dulecha River delimit the area on the north. The Kesem-Kebena-Dulecha area was unknown paleoanthropologically prior to the PIE’s fieldwork, which designated localities with KK (Kesem Kebena) and a unique integer for the locality. The PIE named localities from KK 1 to KK 7, ranging in age from Pliocene (KK 1 and KK 2) through later Pleistocene. Localities are identified by the white, numbered circles on Fig. 1. We continue to follow the nomenclature established by the PIE for consistency’s sake. The most significant discovery of the PIE was the Acheulean lithic and faunal assemblages at the KK 6 locality (Table 1). The PIE took several geological samples, and those from the KK 6 area date to c. 1.0 million years ago (Ma), nearly identical in age to the Harreya Pumice Unit of the Daka Member of the Bouri Formation (Gilbert & Asfaw, 2008).
PB Springer Nature
SN 978-3-031-20290-2
YR 2023
FD 2023-08-18
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92376
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92376
LA eng
NO Gilbert, W.H. et al. (2023). Kesem-Kebena-Dulecha Study Area, Ethiopia. In: Beyin, A., Wright, D.K., Wilkins, J., Olszewski, D.I. (eds) Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_24
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025