Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Artisanat du Sahara, Douz, Tunisia.
Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 18;12(1):3996. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-07816-x.
The late Middle Pleistocene, starting at around 300 ka, witnessed large-scale biological and cultural dynamics in hominin evolution across Africa including the onset of the Middle Stone Age that is closely associated with the evolution of our species-Homo sapiens. However, archaeological and geochronological data of its earliest appearance are scarce. Here we report on the late Middle Pleistocene sequence of Wadi Lazalim, in the Sahara of Southern Tunisia, which has yielded evidence for human occupations bracketed between ca. 300-130 ka. Wadi Lazalim contributes valuable information on the spread of early MSA technocomplexes across North Africa, that likely were an expression of large-scale diffusion processes.
晚更新世始于约 30 万年前，见证了非洲人类进化过程中的大规模生物和文化动态，包括与我们的物种——智人进化密切相关的中石器时代的开始。然而，其最早出现的考古学和地质年代学数据却很匮乏。本文报道了位于突尼斯南部撒哈拉的 Lazalim 山谷的晚更新世序列，这里的考古发现为 30 万至 13 万年前的人类活动提供了证据。Lazalim 山谷为早期中石器时代技术综合体在北非的传播提供了宝贵的信息，这很可能是大规模扩散过程的表现。
