Random walks in handaxe knapping before 1.2 million years ago in East Africa at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia)

• Eduardo Méndez-Quintas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Rita T. Melis, Flavio Altamura, Patricia Bello-Alonso, Andrea Serodio Domínguez, Adugna Debalike Belayneh, Riccardo Salvini, Giuliano Ambrosetti, Margherita Mussi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eduardo.mendez.quintas@uvigo.gal

  Affiliations Grupo de Estudos de Arqueoloxía, Antigüidade e Territorio (GEAAT), University of Vigo, Facultade de Historia, Ourense, Spain, UNIARQ – Centre for Archaeology, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, IDEA, Instituto de Evolución en África, University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, Italo-Spanish Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture and Balchit, Rome, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8272-873X

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• Rita T. Melis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Rita T. Melis, Flavio Altamura, Patricia Bello-Alonso, Andrea Serodio Domínguez, Adugna Debalike Belayneh, Riccardo Salvini, Giuliano Ambrosetti, Margherita Mussi

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

  Affiliations Italo-Spanish Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture and Balchit, Rome, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università di Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy, CNR-IGAG, Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering, Rome, Italy

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• Flavio Altamura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Rita T. Melis, Flavio Altamura, Patricia Bello-Alonso, Andrea Serodio Domínguez, Adugna Debalike Belayneh, Riccardo Salvini, Giuliano Ambrosetti, Margherita Mussi

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

  Affiliations Italo-Spanish Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture and Balchit, Rome, Italy, Forschungsstation Schöningen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Schöningen, Germany

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• Patricia Bello-Alonso ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Rita T. Melis, Flavio Altamura, Patricia Bello-Alonso, Andrea Serodio Domínguez, Adugna Debalike Belayneh, Riccardo Salvini, Giuliano Ambrosetti, Margherita Mussi

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

  Affiliations Grupo de Estudos de Arqueoloxía, Antigüidade e Territorio (GEAAT), University of Vigo, Facultade de Historia, Ourense, Spain, IDEA, Instituto de Evolución en África, University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, Italo-Spanish Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture and Balchit, Rome, Italy

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• Andrea Serodio Domínguez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Rita T. Melis, Flavio Altamura, Patricia Bello-Alonso, Andrea Serodio Domínguez, Adugna Debalike Belayneh, Riccardo Salvini, Giuliano Ambrosetti, Margherita Mussi

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Inter-University Graduate School of Human Evolution, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain, Italo-Spanish Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture and Balchit, Rome, Italy

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• Adugna Debalike Belayneh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Rita T. Melis, Flavio Altamura, Patricia Bello-Alonso, Andrea Serodio Domínguez, Adugna Debalike Belayneh, Riccardo Salvini, Giuliano Ambrosetti, Margherita Mussi

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

  Affiliation Ethiopian Heritage Authority, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Riccardo Salvini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Rita T. Melis, Flavio Altamura, Patricia Bello-Alonso, Andrea Serodio Domínguez, Adugna Debalike Belayneh, Riccardo Salvini, Giuliano Ambrosetti, Margherita Mussi

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

  Affiliation Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment, Centre of Geotechnologies CGT, University of Siena, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8506-4657

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• Giuliano Ambrosetti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Rita T. Melis, Flavio Altamura, Patricia Bello-Alonso, Andrea Serodio Domínguez, Adugna Debalike Belayneh, Riccardo Salvini, Giuliano Ambrosetti, Margherita Mussi

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

  Affiliation Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment, Centre of Geotechnologies CGT, University of Siena, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy

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• Margherita Mussi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Rita T. Melis, Flavio Altamura, Patricia Bello-Alonso, Andrea Serodio Domínguez, Adugna Debalike Belayneh, Riccardo Salvini, Giuliano Ambrosetti, Margherita Mussi

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Italo-Spanish Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture and Balchit, Rome, Italy, ISMEO - The International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies. Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome, Italy

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