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DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.019
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Radioisotopic age, formation, and preservation of Late Pleistocene human footprints at Engare Sero, Tanzania
作者: Liutkus-Pierce C.M.; Zimmer B.W.; Carmichael S.K.; McIntosh W.; Deino A.; Hewitt S.M.; McGinnis K.J.; Hartney T.; Brett J.; Mana S.; Deocampo D.; Richmond B.G.; Hatala K.; Harcourt-Smith W.; Pobiner B.; Metallo A.; Rossi V.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2016
卷: 463
起始页码: 68
结束页码: 82
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Engare Sero ; Footprints ; Hominin ; Lake Natron ; Pleistocene
英文摘要: We report on the radioisotopic age, formation, and preservation of a late Pleistocene human footprint site in northern Tanzania on the southern shore of Lake Natron near the village of Engare Sero. Over 400 human footprints, as well as tracks of zebra and bovid, are preserved in a series of volcaniclastic deposits. Based on field mapping along with geochemical and grain-size analyses, we propose that these deposits originated as proximal volcanic material from the nearby active volcano, Oldoinyo L'engai, and were then fluvially transported to the footprint site. Stable isotope results (δ18O and δ13C) suggest that the footprints were originally emplaced on a mudflat saturated by a freshwater spring and were later inundated by the rising alkaline waters of Lake Natron. We employed the 40Ar/39Ar and 14C dating methods to investigate the age of the site and determined that the footprint level is older than 5760 ± 30 yrs. BP and younger than 19.1 ± 3.1 ka. These radioisotopic ages are supported by stratigraphic correlations with previously documented debris avalanche deposits and the stable isotope signatures associated with the most recent highstand of Lake Natron, further constraining the age to latest Pleistocene. Since modern humans (Homo sapiens) were present in Africa ca. 200 ka, Engare Sero represents the most abundant and best-preserved footprint site of anatomically modern Homo sapiens currently known in Africa. Fossil footprints are a snapshot in time, recording behavior at a specific moment in history; but the actual duration of time captured by the snapshot is often not well defined. Through analog experiments, we constrain the depositional window in which the prints were made, buried, and ultimately preserved to within a few hours to days or months. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/68193
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作者单位: Appalachian State University, Dept. of Geology, Boone, NC, United States; New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Geochronology Research Lab, Socorro, NM, United States; Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States; Pennsylvania Institute for Conservation Education, Elysburg, PA, United States; Salem State University, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Salem, MA, United States; Georgia State University, Dept. of Geosciences, Atlanta, GA, United States; The American Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Anthropology, New York, NY, United States; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; City University of New York, Dept. of Anthropology, New York, NY, United States; The Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Anthropology, Washington, DC, United States; The Smithsonian Institution, Digitization Program Office, Washington, DC, United States

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Liutkus-Pierce C.M.,Zimmer B.W.,Carmichael S.K.,et al. Radioisotopic age, formation, and preservation of Late Pleistocene human footprints at Engare Sero, Tanzania[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2016-01-01,463
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