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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
The early Middle Pleistocene archeopaleontological site of Wadi Sarrat (Tunisia) and the earliest record of Bos primigenius
Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 90, Year 2014
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Here we describe the new, rich lacustrine paleontological and archeological site of Wadi Sarrat (Le Kef, northeastern Tunisia), dated to the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene, ~0.7 Ma, by a combination of paleomagnetism and biochronology. This locality preserves the earliest record of auroch, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of the worldwide extant domestic cattle species Bos taurus, which is represented by a nearly complete, giant-sized cranium (specimen OS1). Both the cranial anatomy and the size of this specimen reflect the phylogenetic legacy inherited from its ancestor, the late Early Pleistocene African Bos buiaensis, recorded in the eastern African paleoanthropological site of Buia, Eritrea (1.0Ma). Given that the latter species is an evolved form of the classical Early Pleistocene African buffalo Pelorovis oldowayensis, the finding of B.primigenius at Wadi Sarrat shows that the genus Bos evolved in Africa and dispersed into Eurasia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene, which coincides with the spread of the Acheulian technocomplex in northern Africa and Europe. Therefore, the lineage of Pelorovis-Bos has been part of the human ecological landscape since the appearance of the genus Homo in the African Early Pleistocene. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Martínez-Navarro, Bienvenido
Spain, Barcelona
Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Spain, Tarragona
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Karoui-Yaakoub, Narjess
Tunisia, Tunis
University of Carthage
Oms, O. L.
Spain, Cerdanyola Del Valles
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Amri, Lamjed
Tunisia, Tunis
University of Carthage
López-García, Juan Manuel
Italy, Ferrara
University of Ferrara
Zerai, Kamel
Tunisia, Sfax
University of Sfax
Blain, Hugues Alexandre
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Spain, Tarragona
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Mtimet, Moncef Saïd
Tunisia, Tunis
University of Carthage
Espigares, María Patrocinio
Spain
Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontología
Spain, Malaga
Universidad de Málaga
Ben Haj Ali, Nebiha
Tunisia, Tunis
Université de Tunis el Manar, Faculté Des Sciences de Tunis
Ros-Montoya, Sergio
Spain
Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontología
Boughdiri, Mabrouk
Tunisia, Tunis
University of Carthage
Agustí, Jordi
Spain, Barcelona
Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Spain, Tarragona
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Khayati-Ammar, Hayet
Tunisia, Tunis
Office National Des Mines Tunis
Maalaoui, Kamel
Tunisia, Tunis
Office National Des Mines Tunis
El Khir, Maahmoudi Om
Tunisia, Tunis
Université de Tunis el Manar, Faculté Des Sciences de Tunis
Tunisia, Tunis
Office National Des Mines Tunis
Sala-Ramos, Robert E.
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Spain, Tarragona
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Othmani, Abdelhak
Tunisia, Tunis
University of Carthage
Hawas, Ramla
Tunisia, Tunis
Université de Tunis el Manar, Faculté Des Sciences de Tunis
Gómez-Merino, Gala
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Solè, Àlex
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Carbonell, Eudald
Spain, Tarragona
Instituto Catalán de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social
Spain, Tarragona
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Palmqvist, Paul
Spain, Malaga
Universidad de Málaga
Statistics
Citations: 26
Authors: 23
Affiliations: 11
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.02.016
ISSN:
02773791
Study Locations
Eritrea
Tunisia