Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of an Ancient High-Altitude Human Dwelling
by Brigit Katz Smithsonian.com
Life in high-altitude mountains can be rough. Resources are scarce, the weather can be extreme and oxygen levels hover at dangerously low levels. Archaeologists have thus assumed that towering mountains and plateaus were among the last places to be populated by ancient humans. But a new study suggests that this assumption could be wrong.
Published in the journalĀ Science, the research details a remarkable discovery in Ethiopiaās Bale Mountains at a site located more than 11,000 feet above sea level. There, a team of experts unearthed a trove of artifactsāamong them stone tools, clay fragments, burnt animal bones and a glass beadāindicating that people had lived there as early as 47,000 years ago. These finds, according to the study, represent āthe earliest evidence of a prehistoric high-altitude [human] residential site.ā
For decades, paleoanthropologists working in east Africa have been concentrating their attention on lower-altitude locations. āWe were simply the first to go higher,ā GoĢtz Ossendorf, an archaeologist at the University of Cologne and lead author of the new study, tells Carl Zimmer of theĀ New York Times. But reaching Fincha Habera, as the site of the new discovery is known, was no mean feat.
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