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Early Pleistocene _Homo erectus_ fossils from Konso, southern Ethiopia

[GEN SUWA](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=8&word=GEN+SUWA "GEN SUWA, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo"), [BERHANE ASFAW](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=8&word=BERHANE+ASFAW "BERHANE ASFAW, Rift Valley Research Service, Addis Ababa"), [YOHANNES HAILE-SELASSIE](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=8&word=YOHANNES+HAILE-SELASSIE "YOHANNES HAILE-SELASSIE, Department of Physical Anthropology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History"), [TIM WHITE](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=8&word=TIM+WHITE "TIM WHITE, Human Evolution Research Center, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California at Berkeley"), [SHIGEHIRO KATOH](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=8&word=SHIGEHIRO+KATOH "SHIGEHIRO KATOH, Division of Earth Sciences, Hyogo Museum of Nature and Human Activities"), [GIDAY WOLDEGABRIEL](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=8&word=GIDAY+WOLDEGABRIEL "GIDAY WOLDEGABRIEL, Hydrology, Geochemistry and Geology Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory"), [WILLIAM K. HART](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=8&word=WILLIAM+K.+HART "WILLIAM K. HART, Department of Geology, Miami University"), [HIDEO NAKAYA](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=8&word=HIDEO+NAKAYA "HIDEO NAKAYA, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Kagoshima University"), [YONAS BEYENE](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=8&word=YONAS+BEYENE "YONAS BEYENE, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Authority for Research and Conservation of the Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, Addis Ababa")

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- GEN SUWA

The University Museum, The University of Tokyo


- BERHANE ASFAW

Rift Valley Research Service, Addis Ababa


- YOHANNES HAILE-SELASSIE

Department of Physical Anthropology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History


- TIM WHITE

Human Evolution Research Center, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California at Berkeley


- SHIGEHIRO KATOH

Division of Earth Sciences, Hyogo Museum of Nature and Human Activities


- GIDAY WOLDEGABRIEL

Hydrology, Geochemistry and Geology Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory


- WILLIAM K. HART

Department of Geology, Miami University


- HIDEO NAKAYA

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Kagoshima University


- YONAS BEYENE

Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Authority for Research and Conservation of the Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, Addis Ababa



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Keywords:

[hominid evolution](/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=5&word=hominid+evolution),
[_Homo erectus_](/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=5&word=Homo+erectus),
[early Pleistocene](/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=5&word=early+Pleistocene),
[Konso](/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=5&word=Konso),
[Ethiopia](/search/global/_search/-char/en?item=5&word=Ethiopia)

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2007
Volume 115
Issue 2
Pages 133-151


DOI [https://doi.org/10.1537/ase.061203](https://doi.org/10.1537/ase.061203)

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- Published: 2007 Received: December 03, 2006Available on J-STAGE: August 24, 2007Accepted: February 26, 2007
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_Homo erectus_ has been broadly defined to include fossils from Africa, Asia, and possibly Europe, or restricted to a supposedly confined Asian clade. Recently discovered fossils of _H. erectus_ are allowing new insights into aspects of its evolution, such as the timing and mode of the species’ emergence in Africa and its relationship to Asian populations. However, the currently available African record predating 1.0 Ma is poor, consisting of the Turkana basin, Olduvai and the more limited South African materials. Here, we describe and compare eight craniodental fossils of ~1.4 Ma recovered from Konso, Ethiopia, that we attribute to _H. erectus_. These include KGA10-1, one of the better-preserved _H. erectus_ mandibular specimens known from eastern Africa, and other fragmentary dental and cranial remains. The Konso _H. erectus_ fossils show a mosaic of primitive and derived features. These include a large and thick mandibular corpus, a moderately developed lateral prominence, a reduced premolar morphology, and a tendency for smaller relative sizes of the posterior molars compared with earlier _Homo_. In some dentognathic details, such as the lack of a buccolingually narrow M1 and the presence of double mental foramina, the Konso fossils differ from eastern African _H. erectus_ of ≥1.5 Ma. The fragmentary cranial remains exhibit weak angular and occipital tori, and an apparently weak occipital flexion, as with the eastern African _H. erectus_ examples known from ~1.65 to 1.2 Ma. The available evidence is consistent with the interpretation that African early _H. erectus_ shows morphological continuity within the ~1.65 to 1.0 Ma time period, with relatively little morphological evolution prior to 1.4 Ma and advanced dentognathic gracility occurring sometime thereafter. The Konso evidence corroborates the hypothesis that the African _H. erectus_ populations represent a variable but continuous evolutionary succession that was a likely source of multiple events of gene flow to the Eurasian continent.

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