Research data supporting "Late Pleistocene and Holocene Lithic Variability at Goda Buticha (Southeastern Ethiopia): Implications for the Understanding of the Middle and Late Stone Age of the Horn of Africa"

This data is composed of (1) a) a list of the attributes used in the analysis of the lithic assemblages of Goda Buticha (southeastern Ethiopia); the site has yielded a sequence dated to the Late Pleistocene (from ca 65 ka) until the Holocene (upper levels dated to 2-1ka), b) a figure illustrating how some of the attributes were recorded; (2) the raw data regarding (a) elongated blanks, (b) cores, (c) retouched points and (d) other retouched tools. Measurements were taken on the lithic artefacts between 2011 and 2012 at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia).