%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Pappu, S.
%A Gunnell, Y.
%A Akhilesh, K.
%A Braucher, R.
%A Taieb, M.
%A Demory, F.
%A Thouveny, Nicolas
%T Early Pleistocene presence of Acheulian hominins in South India
%D 2011
%L fdi:010052666
%G ENG
%J Science
%@ 0036-8075
%M ISI:000288754500053
%N 6024
%P 1596-1599
%R 10.1126/science.1200183
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010052666
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/depot/2011-10-06/010052666.pdf
%V 331
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X South Asia is rich in Lower Paleolithic Acheulian sites. These have been attributed to the Middle Pleistocene on the basis of a small number of dates, with a few older but disputed age estimates. Here, we report new ages from the excavated site of Attirampakkam, where paleomagnetic measurements and direct Al-26/Be-10 burial dating of stone artifacts now position the earliest Acheulian levels as no younger than 1.07 million years ago (Ma), with a pooled average age of 1.51 +/- 0.07 Ma. These results reveal that, during the Early Pleistocene, India was already occupied by hominins fully conversant with an Acheulian technology including handaxes and cleavers among other artifacts. This implies that a spread of bifacial technologies across Asia occurred earlier than previously accepted.
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