Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia

被引:62
作者
Li, Feng [1 ,2 ]
Vanwezer, Nils [3 ]
Boivin, Nicole [3 ]
Gao, Xing [1 ,2 ,4 ]
Ott, Florian [3 ]
Petraglia, Michael [3 ,5 ]
Roberts, Patrick [3 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China
[2] CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China
[3] Max Planck Inst Sci Human Hist, Dept Archaeol, Jena, Germany
[4] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
[5] Smithsonian Inst, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Human Origins Program, Washington, DC 20560 USA
[6] Univ Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
关键词
HIGH LAKE LEVELS; HOMO-SAPIENS; SOUTHERN DISPERSAL; HUMAN COLONIZATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; QAIDAM BASIN; STONE-AGE; CHINA; CHRONOLOGY; POPULATIONS;
D O I
10.1371/journal.pone.0216433
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The adaptability of our species, as revealed by the geographic routes and palaeoenvironmental contexts of human dispersal beyond Africa, is a prominent topic in archaeology and palaeoanthropology. Northern and Central Asia have largely been neglected as it has been assumed that the deserts and mountain ranges of these regions acted as 'barriers', forcing human populations to arc north into temperate and arctic Siberia. Here, we test this proposition by constructing Least Cost Path models of human dispersal under glacial and interstadial conditions between prominent archaeological sites in Central and East Asia. Incorporating information from palaeoclimatic, palaeolake, and archaeological data, we demonstrate that regions such as the Gobi Desert and the Altai Mountain chains could have periodically acted as corridors and routes for human dispersals and framing biological interactions between hominin populations. Review of the archaeological datasets in these regions indicates the necessity of wide-scale archaeological survey and excavations in many poorly documented parts of Eurasia. We argue that such work is likely to highlight the 'northern routes' of human dispersal as variable, yet crucial, foci for understanding the extreme adaptive plasticity characteristic of the emergence of Homo sapiens as a global species, as well as the cultural and biological hybridization of the diverse hominin species present in Asia during the Late Pleistocene.
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