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Acknowledgements

Permission to conduct field work was granted by the Department of Mines of the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water Resources of Eritrea. We are grateful to A. Kibreab, T. Keleta, A. Mesfin and M. Abraha, G. Ogubazghi and B. Woldehaimanot, and the staff of the National Museum of Eritrea for their support. Financial support was provided by grants from Anadarko Petroleum Company, the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Human Origins, the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto. Donations by TOTAL Eritrea are gratefully acknowledged. We thank M. Kusmu, L. Le Vert, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Canadian Consulate and the US Embassy in Asmara. We also thank M. Abdelsalam, T. Andemariam, J. Aronson, B. Collins, C. Cermignani, M. Chazan, S. Churchill, D. Doumenc, E. Goodman, M. Gorton, D. Guinot, Y. Lam, A. Martyn, N. Mohammed, N.-H. Nguyen, J. Pandolfi, K. Reed, H. Shoshani, G. Smithwalter, R. Stern, M. Tesfaye, J. Trondle, M. de Saint Laurent, F. Taylor, G. Watson, C. Vondra and T. Yemane for assistance and/or discussions. Bifaces were first observed on the coast near Abdur by C. Hillman and reported to RCW. in 1995.

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  1. Departmento de Geologica, Centro de Investigaciôn Científica de Educación Superior de Ensenada, km. 107 Carr., Tijuana-Ensenada, Ensenada B.C., Mexico

    Robert C. Walter

  2. Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas, Austin, 78712, Texas, USA

    Richard T. Buffler & Berhane Negassi

  3. Department of Marine Biology, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, AA Haren , 9750, The Netherlands

    J. Henrich Bruggemann

  4. Department of Marine Biology and Fisheries, University of Asmara, PO Box 1220, Asmara, Eritrea

    J. Henrich Bruggemann

  5. Experimental Zoology Group, Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, PO Box 338, AH Wageningen, 6700, The Netherlands

    Rudo von Cosel

  6. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Biologie des Invertébrés Marins et Malacologie, ESA 8044-CNRS, 55 rue de Buffon, Paris, 75005, France

    Mireille M. M. Guillaume

  7. African Minerals Inc., PO Box 4588, Asmara, Eritrea

    Seife M. Berhe

  8. Department of Mines, Ministry of Energy and Mines, PO Box 272, Asmara, Eritrea

    Berhane Negassi

  9. National Museum of Eritrea, PO Box 5284, Asmara, Eritrea

    Yoseph Libsekal

  10. Archaeology Unit, University of Asmara, PO Box 1220, Asmara, Eritrea

    Yoseph Libsekal

  11. Department of Geology and Geophysics University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, Minnesota, USA

    Hai Cheng & R. Lawrence Edwards

  12. Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Géosciences Rennes, Université de Rennes I, Campus de Beaulieu, avenue du Général Leclerc, Rennes cedex, 35042 , France

    Didier Néraudeau

  13. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3G3, Ontario, Canada

    Mario Gagnon

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Walter, R., Buffler, R., Bruggemann, J. et al. Early human occupation of the Red Sea coast of Eritrea during the last interglacial. Nature 405, 65–69 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35011048

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  • Received: 13 December 1999

  • Accepted: 17 February 2000

  • Issue Date: 04 May 2000

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/35011048