REDAE Blade Engda
Postdoctoral researcher
Associated member
Main research question
The main objective of this study is to reconstruct the environmental context surrounding the emergence of the Oldowan technology in the Shungura Formation ~2.3 Ma (lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia). This work is a continuation of my PhD thesis.
Topics of study
This will be addressed through integrative approach, combining ecological and taphonomic methods. The ecological part constitutes 3D dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) on bovids and giraffids and faunal composition analysis among different localities and stratigraphic units. The faunal assemblages are also examined from taphonomic perspective with more emphasis on bone surface modifications.
Contact
- Institute of Human Origins (IHO), School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe
- bredae@asu.edu
Iconic publications
Blade Engda Redae 2022 – Ecological dynamics of the vertebrate assemblages contemporaneous of the human occupations in the Shungura Formation (Plio-Pleistocene of the lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia) – PhD Thesis, Univerité de Poitiers – https://hal.science/tel-03947299
Redae B. E., Courtenay L. A., Souron A. Costamagno S., Rozada L., Parkinson J., Drumheller S., Delagnes A., Boisserie J.-R., Lesur J. 2022 – Identifying taphonomic agents from the Plio-Pleistocene record of the Shungura Formation (lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia), using confocal microscopy and Elliptic Fourier Analysis. Taphos/ICAZ. 9th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization, June 2022, Madrid, Spain. https://hal.science/hal-03922701.
Khalidi L, Mologni C, Ménard C, Coudert L, Gabriele M, Davtian G, Cauliez J, Lesur J, Bruxelles L, Chesnaux L, Engda B Redae, Hainsworth E, Doubre C, Revel M, Schuster M, Zazzo A. 2020 – 9000 years of human lakeside adaptation in the Ethiopian Afar: Fisher-foragers and the first pastoralists in the Lake Abhe basin during the African Humid Period. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2020. https://doi-org.inee.bib.cnrs.fr/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106459.
Braun D, Aldeias V, Archer W, Arrowsmith J, Baraki N, Campisano C, Deino A, DiMaggio E, Dupont- Nivet G, Engda B Redae, Feary D, Garello D, Kefyalew Z, McPherron S, Patterson D, Reeves, Thompson J, Reed, K. 2019 – The Oldest Oldowan Artefacts at >2.58 from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia. PNAS, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820177116.