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DOI	10.1038/s41467-020-20176-2
	Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago
	Mercader J.; Akuku P.; Boivin N.; Bugumba R.; Bushozi P.; Camacho A.; Carter T.; Clarke S.; Cueva-Temprana A.; Durkin P.; Favreau J.; Fella K.; Haberle S.; Hubbard S.; Inwood J.; Itambu M.; Koromo S.; Lee P.; Mohammed A.; Mwambwiga A.; Olesilau L.; Patalano R.; Roberts P.; Rule S.; Saladie P.; Siljedal G.; Soto M.; Umbsaar J.; Petraglia M.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	2041-1723
卷号	12 期号:1
英文摘要	Rapid environmental change is a catalyst for human evolution, driving dietary innovations, habitat diversification, and dispersal. However, there is a dearth of information to assess hominin adaptions to changing physiography during key evolutionary stages such as the early Pleistocene. Here we report a multiproxy dataset from Ewass Oldupa, in the Western Plio-Pleistocene rift basin of Olduvai Gorge (now Oldupai), Tanzania, to address this lacuna and offer an ecological perspective on human adaptability two million years ago. Oldupai’s earliest hominins sequentially inhabited the floodplains of sinuous channels, then river-influenced contexts, which now comprises the oldest palaeolake setting documented regionally. Early Oldowan tools reveal a homogenous technology to utilise diverse, rapidly changing environments that ranged from fern meadows to woodland mosaics, naturally burned landscapes, to lakeside woodland/palm groves as well as hyper-xeric steppes. Hominins periodically used emerging landscapes and disturbance biomes multiple times over 235,000 years, thus predating by more than 180,000 years the earliest known hominins and Oldowan industries from the Eastern side of the basin. © 2021, The Author(s).
语种	英语
scopus关键词	disturbance; environmental change; environmental conditions; evolutionary theory; fern; hominid; human evolution; meadow; paleoenvironment; paleohydrology; Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary; article; floodplain; forest; human; Pleistocene; river; steppe; Tanzania; adaptation; animal; anthropology; archeology; diet; ecosystem; environment; fossil; history; hominid; paleontology; physiology; plant; pollen; technology; Arusha [Tanzania]; Olduvai Gorge; Tanzania; Lacuna; biological marker; charcoal; Adaptation, Physiological; Animals; Anthropology; Archaeology; Biomarkers; Charcoal; Diet; Ecosystem; Environment; Fossils; History, Ancient; Hominidae; Humans; Paleontology; Plants; Pollen; Tanzania; Technology
来源期刊	Nature Communications
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/251541
作者单位	University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany; Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Tarragona, Spain; Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain; School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States; Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; University of Iringa, Iringa, Tanzania; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania; Madrid Institute for Advanced Study, Madrid, Spain; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mercader J.,Akuku P.,Boivin N.,et al. Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago[J],2021,12(1).
APA	Mercader J..,Akuku P..,Boivin N..,Bugumba R..,Bushozi P..,...&Petraglia M..(2021).Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago.Nature Communications,12(1).
MLA	Mercader J.,et al."Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago".Nature Communications 12.1(2021).