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Groucutt, Huw S., White, Tom S., Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Andrieux, Eric, Clark-Wilson, Richard, Breeze, Paul S., Armitage, Simon J., Stewart, Mathew ORCID: 0000-0002-0413-8133, Drake, Nick, Louys, Julien, Price, Gilbert J., Duval, Mathieu ORCID: 0000-0003-3181-7753, Parton, Ash, Candy, Ian, Carleton, W. Christopher, Shipton, Ceri, Jennings, Richard P., Zahir, Muhammad, Blinkhorn, James, Blockley, Simon, Al-Omari, Abdulaziz, Alsharekh, Abdullah M. and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature, 597 (7876). S. 376 - 394. BERLIN: NATURE PORTFOLIO. ISSN 1476-4687

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Abstract

Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia(1-4). Archaeological and palaeontological records from the Levantine woodland zone document major biological and cultural shifts, such as alternating occupations by Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. However, Late Quaternary cultural, biological and environmental records from the vast arid zone that constitutes most of Southwest Asia remain scarce, limiting regional-scale insights into changes in hominin demography and behaviour(1,2,5). Here we report a series of dated palaeolake sequences, associated with stone tool assemblages and vertebrate fossils, from the Khall Amayshan 4 and Jubbah basins in the Nefud Desert. These findings, including the oldest dated hominin occupations in Arabia, reveal at least five hominin expansions into the Arabian interior, coinciding with briergreen' windows of reduced aridity approximately 400, 300, 200,130-75 and 55 thousand years ago. Each occupation phase is characterized by a distinct form of material culture, indicating colonization by diverse hominin groups, and a lack of long-term Southwest Asian population continuity. Within a general pattern of African and Eurasian hominin groups being separated by Pleistocene Saharo-Arabian aridity, our findings reveal the tempo and character of climatically modulated windows for dispersal and admixture.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Groucutt, Huw S. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED White, Tom S. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Scerri, Eleanor M. L. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Andrieux, Eric UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Clark-Wilson, Richard UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Breeze, Paul S. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Armitage, Simon J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Stewart, Mathew UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-0413-8133 UNSPECIFIED Drake, Nick UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Louys, Julien UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Price, Gilbert J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Duval, Mathieu UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3181-7753 UNSPECIFIED Parton, Ash UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Candy, Ian UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Carleton, W. Christopher UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Shipton, Ceri UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Jennings, Richard P. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Zahir, Muhammad UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Blinkhorn, James UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Blockley, Simon UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Al-Omari, Abdulaziz UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Alsharekh, Abdullah M. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Petraglia, Michael D. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-605935
DOI:	10.1038/s41586-021-03863-y
Journal or Publication Title:	Nature
Volume:	597
Number:	7876
Page Range:	S. 376 - 394
Date:	2021
Publisher:	NATURE PORTFOLIO
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	1476-4687
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language HOMO-SAPIENS; MIDDLE; CLIMATE; VARIABILITY Multiple languages Multidisciplinary Sciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/60593