Reply to Sahle and Gossa: Technology and geochronology at the earliest known Oldowan site at Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia

David R Braun (1) , Vera Aldeias (2) , Will Archer (2) , J Ramon Arrowsmith (3) , Niguss Baraki (4) , Christopher J. Campisano (3) , Alan Deino (5) , Erin N. Dimaggio (6) , Guillaume Dupont-Nivet (7, 8) , Et Al.

1 GW - The George Washington University
2 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology [Leipzig]
3 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]
4 AAU - Addis Ababa University
5 BGC - Berkeley Geochronology Center
6 Penn State - Pennsylvania State University
7 GR - Géosciences Rennes
8 University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam

Sahle and Gossa (1) identify 2 components of our paper with which they disagree. Their concerns are based on misunderstandings of our paleomagnetic data and the published details of the Bokol Dora 1 (BD 1) artifact assemblage.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Earth Sciences; Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; Humanities and Social Sciences; Archaeology and Prehistory

David R Braun, Vera Aldeias, Will Archer, J Ramon Arrowsmith, Niguss Baraki, et al.. Reply to Sahle and Gossa: Technology and geochronology at the earliest known Oldowan site at Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019, 116 (41), pp.20261-20262. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1911952116⟩. ⟨hal-02330482⟩