Evidence for Earlier Stone Age ‘coastal use’: The site of Dungo IV, Benguela Province, Angola

• Isis Mesfin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: isis.mesfin@edu.mnhn.fr, isis.mesfin@gmail.com

  Affiliations Fyssen Foundation - Museu Nacional de Arqueologia de Benguela, Benguela, Angola, UMR 7194 Histoire Naturelle de l’Homme Préhistorique – CNRS, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Université Perpignan Via Domitia – Alliance Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1322-6925

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• Maria-Helena Benjamim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria-Helena Benjamim, Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard, Matt Lotter

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Fyssen Foundation - Museu Nacional de Arqueologia de Benguela, Benguela, Angola

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• Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria-Helena Benjamim, Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard, Matt Lotter

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aix-Marseille, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9262-9169

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• Thibaud Saos ,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TS, DP and JM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation UMR 7194 Histoire Naturelle de l’Homme Préhistorique – CNRS, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Université Perpignan Via Domitia – Alliance Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

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• David Pleurdeau ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TS, DP and JM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation UMR 7194 Histoire Naturelle de l’Homme Préhistorique – CNRS, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Université Perpignan Via Domitia – Alliance Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

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• Jorge Matos ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ TS, DP and JM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Instituto Superior Politecnico Jean Piaget, Bairro Nossa Senhora da Graça, Benguela, Angola

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• Matt Lotter

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria-Helena Benjamim, Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard, Matt Lotter

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

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