Faunal Change in Eastern Africa at the Oldowan – Acheulean Transition Denis Geraads To cite this version: Denis Geraads. Faunal Change in Eastern Africa at the Oldowan – Acheulean Transition. The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa and Beyond: Contributions in Honor of Jean Chavaillon, In press. halshs-01819105 HAL Id: halshs-01819105 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01819105 Submitted on 20 Jun 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. 9. Faunal Change in Eastern Africa at the Oldowan – Acheulean Transition Denis Geraads Centre de Recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements - Sorbonne Universités, MNHN, CNRS, UPMC, CP 38, 8 rue Buffon, 75231 PARIS Cedex 05, France
[email protected] In: R. Gallotti and M. Mussi (eds.), The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa and Beyond: Contributions in Honor of Jean Chavaillon, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, Springer, 2018. Abstract The Early Pleistocene transition from the Oldowan to the Acheulean in eastern Africa was roughly contemporaneous with a number of other events commonly assumed to be connected with hominin evolution. I review here the large mammal evidence, well- documented in several major eastern African sites.