Goda Buticha, Ethiopia

David Pleurdeau; Asfawossen Asrat; Erella Hovers; Osbjorn Pearson; Alice Leplongeon; Isabelle Crèvecoeur; Jean Jacques Bahain; Chantal Tribolo; Workakalemahu Bekele Sime; Emmanuelle Stoetzel; Zelalem Assefa

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_20

Goda Buticha, Ethiopia

David Pleurdeau^*, Asfawossen Asrat, Erella Hovers, Osbjorn Pearson, Alice Leplongeon, Isabelle Crèvecoeur, Jean Jacques Bahain, Chantal Tribolo, Workakalemahu Bekele Sime, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Zelalem Assefa

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Goda Buticha is located some 30 km west of the Dire Dawa city in eastern Ethiopia and is one of the rare stratified archaeological sites in the Horn of Africa that documents Late Pleistocene human occupation from at least c. 63 ka. To date, c. 5 m3 of sediments have been excavated from a surface of 2 m2 at the entrance of the cave. The Goda Buticha sequence is marked by an important chronological gap in the human occupation during the MIS 2 and beginning of Holocene, similarly to other records in the region. Besides abundant lithic artifacts, major archaeological finds at the site include several hundreds of mammalian and small vertebrate remains, hominin remains, and expressions of symbolic behavior in the form of ostrich eggshell beads and engraved fragments. These cultural assemblages of Goda Buticha questions the dynamics of behavioral change and continuity in the frame of the Middle Stone Age/Later Stone Age transition. The deposit of the cave also documents evidence of climate and local environment shifts throughout the sequence.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa
Subtitle of host publication	Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	337-352
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031202902
ISBN (Print)	9783031202896
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_20
State	Published - 1 Jan 2023

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Pleurdeau, D., Asrat, A., Hovers, E., Pearson, O., Leplongeon, A., Crèvecoeur, I., Bahain, J. J., Tribolo, C., Sime, W. B., Stoetzel, E., & Assefa, Z. (2023). Goda Buticha, Ethiopia. In Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology (pp. 337-352). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_20

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