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Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene
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Boivin, Nicole, Fuller, Dorian Q., Dennell, Robin, Allaby, Robin G. and Petraglia, Michael D. (2013) Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene. Quaternary International, Volume 300 . pp. 32-47. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.01.008 ISSN 1040-6182.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.01.008
Abstract
The initial out of Africa dispersal of Homo sapiens, which saw anatomically modern humans reach the Levant in Marine Isotope Stage 5, is generally regarded as a ‘failed dispersal’. Fossil, archaeological and genetic findings are seen to converge around a consensus view that a single population of H. sapiens exited Africa sometime around 60 thousand years ago (ka), and rapidly reached Australia by following a coastal dispersal corridor. We challenge the notion that current evidence supports this straightforward model. We argue that the fossil and archaeological records are too incomplete, the coastal route too problematic, and recent genomic evidence too incompatible for researchers not to remain fully open to other hypotheses. We specifically explore the possibility of a sustained exit by anatomically modern humans, drawing in particular upon palaeoenvironmental data across southern Asia to demonstrate its feasibility. Current archaeological, genetic and fossil data are not incompatible with the model presented, and appear to increasingly favour a more complex out of Africa scenario involving multiple exits, varying terrestrial routes, a sub-divided African source population, slower progress to Australia, and a degree of interbreeding with archaic varieties of Homo.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Quaternary International | ||||
Publisher: | Pergamon | ||||
ISSN: | 1040-6182 | ||||
Official Date: | June 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 300 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 32-47 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.01.008 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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