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Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran.
PLoS One
March 2023
School of Social Science, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Fossil and archaeological evidence indicates that hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia occurred throughout the Pleistocene, including the expansion of Homo sapiens populations out of Africa. While there is evidence for hominin occupations in the Pleistocene in Iran, as evidenced by the presence of Lower to Upper Paleolithic archaeological sites, the extent to which humid periods facilitated population expansions into western Asia has remained unclear. To test the role of humid periods on hominin dispersals here we assess Paleolithic site distributions and paleoenvironmental records across Iran.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPaleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene.
PLoS One
October 2022
Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
Central Asia is positioned at a crossroads linking several zones important to hominin dispersal during the Middle Pleistocene. However, the scarcity of stratified and dated archaeological material and paleoclimate records makes it difficult to understand dispersal and occupation dynamics during this time period, especially in arid zones. Here we compile and analyze paleoclimatic and archaeological data from Pleistocene Central Asia, including examination of a new layer-counted speleothem-based multiproxy record of hydrological changes in southern Uzbekistan at the end of MIS 11.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAuthor Correction: Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years.
Nature
February 2022
Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years.
Nature
September 2021
Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia. 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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia.
Sci Rep
May 2021
Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany.
The Arabian Peninsula is a critical geographic landmass situated between Africa and the rest of Eurasia. Climatic shifts across the Pleistocene periodically produced wetter conditions in Arabia, dramatically altering the spatial distribution of hominins both within and between continents. This is particularly true of Acheulean hominins, who appear to have been more tethered to water sources than Middle Palaeolithic hominins.
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