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Shao, Yaping, Limberg, Heiko, Klein, Konstantin, Wegener, Christian ORCID: 0000-0003-3052-2064, Schmidt, Isabell, Weniger, Gerd-Christian, Hense, Andreas and Rostami, Masoud ORCID: 0000-0003-1730-5145 (2021). Human-existence probability of the Aurignacian techno-complex under extreme climate conditions. Quat. Sci. Rev., 263. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1873-457X

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Abstract

The Aurignacian occurred in the middle of the Last Glacial Period, in which climate underwent major changes on millennial time scales, highlighted by the Greenland interstadial and stadial periods. Here we investigate how climate change influenced the Aurignacian human dispersal in Europe and search for answers to several highly-debated questions in the Archaeology and Paleoanthropology. We use a global climate model to simulate the prototypical stadial and interstadial climate conditions and develop a human-existence potential (HEP) model to compute the probability of human existence by combining the climate data with archaeological site data. Using the HEP model, we reconstruct the patterns of human-existence probability and provide a pan-European overview of the Aurignacian human dispersal. The model results suggest that climate change significantly influences human dispersal, but there is evidence of human adaptation to climate. The Aurignacian dispersal is likely achieved in alternating modes of expansion and contraction. In comparison to interstadial times, human-existence probability in stadial times is largely reduced, but hot-spots exist in the climate shadows of large topographic features. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Shao, Yaping UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Limberg, Heiko UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Klein, Konstantin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Wegener, Christian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3052-2064 UNSPECIFIED Schmidt, Isabell UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Weniger, Gerd-Christian UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hense, Andreas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Rostami, Masoud UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1730-5145 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-576828
DOI:	10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106995
Journal or Publication Title:	Quat. Sci. Rev.
Volume:	263
Date:	2021
Publisher:	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1873-457X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EARLIEST MODERN HUMANS; PROTO-AURIGNACIAN; ADAPTIVE SHIFT; ICE-SHEET; EUROPE; CIRCULATION; POPULATION; VARIABILITY; HYPOTHESIS; ORIGIN Multiple languages Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57682