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ArticleNature2019

Age and context of mid-Pliocene hominin cranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia.

Beverly Z Saylor, Luis Gibert, Alan Deino, Mulugeta Alene, Naomi E Levin, Stephanie M Melillo, Mark D Peaple, Sarah J Feakins, Benjamin Bourel, Doris Barboni and 4 more

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Article in Nature, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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14 authors.

Beverly Z SaylorDepartment of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Luis GibertDepartament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Alan DeinoBerkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Mulugeta AleneSchool of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Naomi E LevinDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Stephanie M MelilloDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Mark D PeapleDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Sarah J FeakinsDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Benjamin BourelAix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Collège de France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Doris BarboniAix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Collège de France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Alice NovelloAix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Collège de France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Florence SylvestreAix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Collège de France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Stanley A MertzmanDepartment of Earth and Environment, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA.
Yohannes Haile-SelassieCleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH, USA. yhaileselassie@cmnh.org.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A fossil hominin cranium was discovered in mid-Pliocene deltaic strata in the Godaya Valley of the northwestern Woranso-Mille study area in Ethiopia. Here we show that analyses of chemically correlated volcanic layers and the palaeomagnetic stratigraphy, combined with Bayesian modelling of dated tuffs, yield an age range of 3.804 ± 0.013 to 3.777 ± 0.014 million years old (mean ± 1σ) for the deltaic strata and the fossils that they contain. We also document deposits of a perennial lake beneath the deltaic sequence. Mammalian fossils associated with the cranium represent taxa that were widespread at the time and data from botanical remains indicate that the vegetation in the lake and delta catchment was predominantly dry shrubland with varying proportions of grassland, wetland and riparian forest. In addition, we report high rates of sediment accumulation and depositional features that are typical of a steep topographic relief and differ from younger Woranso-Mille fossil localities, reflecting the influence of active rift processes on the palaeolandscape.

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FossilsAnimalsEthiopiaHominidaeLakesPaleontologyRadiometric DatingSkullTime Factors

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