Dr. Yonatan Sahle is a broadly-trained archaeologist. His research interests revolve around understanding behavioral and ecological contexts across the origin of our species; prehistoric hunting technologies; hominin foraging adaptation (esp. carnivory); and ethnographic stone tool use.
Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals | |
2019 | Sahle Y, AS Brooks. Assessment of complex projectiles in the early Late Pleistocene at Aduma, Ethiopia. PLOS ONE 14(5), e0216716. |
Sahle Y, Y Beyene, A Defleaur, B Asfaw, G WoldeGabriel, WK Hart, LE Morgan, PR Renne, J Carlson, TD White. Revisiting Herto: New evidence of Homo sapiens from Herto. In: Modern human origins and dispersal. Sahle et al. (Eds.). Tübingen: Kerns Verlag (pp. 73–104). |
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Sahle Y, Y Beyene, A Defleaur, B Asfaw, G WoldeGabriel, WK Hart, PR Renne, J Carlson, TD White. Human emergence: Perspectives from Herto, Afar Rift, Ethiopia. In: Modern human origins and dispersal. Sahle et al. (Eds.). Tübingen: Kerns Verlag (pp. 105-136). |
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Sahle Y, H Reyes-Centeno, C Bentz (Eds). Modern human origins and dispersal: current state of knowledge and future directions. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag. | |
Sahle Y. Ethnoarchaeology of compound adhesive production and tool hafting: implications from Hadiya (Ethiopia). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 53, 43-50. | |
Sahle Y. Eastern African Stone Age. Oxford Encyclopedia of Anthropology. DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.53 | |
2018 | Sahle Y, H Reyes-Centeno, C Bentz. Modern human origins and dispersal: current state of knowledge and future directions. Evolutionary Anthropology 27: 64-67. |
Sahle Y, DR Braun. A reply to Douze and Delagnes’s ‘The pattern of emergence of a Middle Stone Age tradition at Gademotta and Kulkuletti (Ethiopia) through convergent tool and point technologies’. J. Hum. Evol. [2016] 91, 93–121. Journal of Human Evolution 125, 201–206. | |
2017 | Sahle Y, S El Zaatari, TW White Hominid butchers and biting crocodiles in the African Plio–Pleistocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/10/31/1716317114.full |
Sahle Y, A Beyin . Archaeological reconnaissance of the Late Pleistocene Red Sea coast in the Danakil (Afar, Ethiopia). Antiquity 91, 1-6. | |
Shackley M, Y Sahle Geochemical characterization of four Quaternary obsidian sources and provenance of obsidian artifacts from the Middle Stone Age of Gademotta, Main Ethiopian Rift. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 32, 302-310. | |
2016 | Sahle Y, A Negash. An ethnographic experiment of endscraper curation rate among Hadiya hideworkers, Ethiopia. Lithic Technology 41, 154-163 DOI:10.1179/2051618515Y.0000000022 |
2014 | Sahle Y, LE Morgan, DR Braun, B Atnafu, WK Hutchings. Chronological and behavioral contexts of the earliest Middle Stone Age in the Gademotta Formation, Main Ethiopian Rift. Quaternary International 331: 6-19. |
2013 | Sahle Y, WK Hutchings, DR Braun, JC Sealy, LE Morgan, A Negash, B Atnafu. Earliest stone-tipped projectiles from the Ethiopian Rift date to >279,000 years ago. PLoS One. 8(11) e78092. News National Geographic Sciencenews.org |
2012 | Sahle Y, A Negash, DR Braun. Variability in ethnographic hidescraper use among the Hadiya of Ethiopia: Implications for reduction analysis. African Archaeological Review 29 (4): 383-397. |
Gossa T, Y Sahle, A Negash. A reassessment of the Middle and Later Stone Age lithic assemblages from Aladi Springs, Southern Afar Rift, Ethiopia. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 47 (2): 210-222. | |
2011 | González-Ruibal A, Y Sahle, XA Villa. A Social Archaeology of colonial war in Ethiopia. World Archaeology 43 (1): 40-56. |
Published Abstracts, Talks, Documentaries |
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2016 | Netflix Original. Into the Inferno. By Werner Herzog. Y Sahle as himself Netflix |
The Science of Human Evolution in Africa. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) symposium. Washington, DC. | |
SA Brandt, Y Sahle, H Groucutt (2016). Parting the Red Sea: Late Pleistocene lithic variability and human dispersals in the Horn of Africa and Arabia. The SAA 81st Annual Meeting | |
Sahle Y, Y Beyene, Late Pleistocene Behaviors: Perspectives from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Abstracts of the SAA 81st Annual Meeting | |
2015 | Sahle Y Assessment of projectile use at Aduma (Middle Awash, Ethiopia). Abstracts of the SAA 80th Annual Meeting, sp. 860. |
2014 | BBC Two. Human Universe: Apeman–Spaceman (BBC TWO). By Brian Cox. Y Sahle as himself. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276pc3 |
Sahle Y, DR Braun, JC Sealy Technological Behavior in the Middle Stone Age of the Gademotta Fm., Ethiopia: Insights from the Levallois method. Abstracts of the SAA 79th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, p. 659. |
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M Kay, Sahle Y, J Kappelman, L Todd Ethiopian MSA production chains early and late: Gademotta, Aduma, and Shinfa. Abstracts of the SAA 79th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, p. 386. | |
2011 | Sahle Y, DR Braun The context of early Middle Stone Age occupations in the Main Ethiopian Rift: Renewed excavations at Gademotta. Paleoanthropology Society Meeting Abstracts, Minneapolis, MN. p. A33. |