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DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.012
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84971261626
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Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East ~250-70,000 years ago
作者: Breeze P.S.; Groucutt H.S.; Drake N.A.; White T.S.; Jennings R.P.; Petraglia M.D.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2016
卷: 144
起始页码: 155
结束页码: 185
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Arabia ; Hominin dispersals ; Palaeohydrology ; Pleistocene environments ; Tabuk corridor
Scopus关键词: Climate change ; Arabia ; Hominin dispersals ; Palaeohydrology ; Pleistocene ; Tabuk corridor ; Biodiversity ; climate variation ; dispersal ; hominid ; marine isotope stage ; paleoclimate ; paleohydrology ; Pleistocene ; proxy climate record ; reconstruction ; settlement pattern ; Arabian Peninsula ; East Africa ; Levant ; Mediterranean Region ; Saudi Arabia ; Tabuk [Saudi Arabia] ; Homo sapiens
英文摘要: The timing and extent of palaeoenvironmental connections between northeast Africa, the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula during the Middle and Late Pleistocene are critical to debates surrounding dispersals of hominins, including movements of Homo sapiens out of Africa. Although there is evidence that synchronous episodes of climatic amelioration during the late Middle and Late Pleistocene may have allowed connections to form between northern Africa and western Asia, a number of palaeoclimate models indicate the continued existence of an arid barrier between northern Arabia and the Levant. Here we evaluate the palaeoenvironmental setting for hominin dispersals between, and within, northeast Africa and southwest Asia during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 7-5 using reconstructions of surface freshwater availability as an environmental proxy. We use remotely sensed data to map palaeohydrological features (lakes, wetlands and rivers) across the presently hyper-arid areas of northern Arabia and surrounding regions, integrating these results with palaeoclimate models, palaeoenvironmental proxy data and absolute dating to determine when these features were active. Our analyses suggest limited potential for dispersals during MIS 7 and 6, but indicate the formation of a palaeohydrological corridor (the 'Tabuk Corridor') between the Levant and the Arabian interior during the MIS 6-5e glacial-interglacial transition and during MIS 5e. A recurrence of this corridor, following a slightly different route, also occurred during MIS 5a. These palaeohydrological and terrestrial data can be used to establish when proposed routes for hominin dispersals became viable. Furthermore, the distribution of Arabian archaeological sites with affinities to Levantine assemblages, some of which are associated with Homo sapiens fossils, and the relative density of Middle Palaeolithic assemblages within the Tabuk Corridor, are consistent with it being utilised for dispersals at various times. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
资助项目: We thank His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Salman, President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, and Prof. Ali Ghabban, Vice President for Antiquities and Museums, for permission to carry out fieldwork in Saudi Arabia. We thank our Saudi colleagues especially Abdullah Alsharekh, Jamal Omar, and Abdulaziz al Omari for their support and assistance during our field investigations. PSB, NAD, TSW and HSG wrote the paper, with contributions and edits from all authors ; palaeohydrological mapping, GIS, and palaeoenvironmental analyses were performed by PSB and NAD ; HSG assembled and analysed the lithic database ; discussion of palaeoecology and allogenic fluvial systems was performed by TSW ; Current and Pleistocene precipitation models generated by RPJ. Study was conceived and designed by PSB, NAD and MDP. Fieldwork in Saudi Arabia was funded by the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage and the European Research Council (no. 295719, to MDP). PSB was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (grant NE/J500306/1). HSG is funded by the British Academy. We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their insightful feedback and comments, which have greatly improved this manuscript.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59561
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作者单位: Department of Geography, King's College London, United Kingdom; School of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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Breeze P.S.,Groucutt H.S.,Drake N.A.,et al. Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East ~250-70,000 years ago[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,144
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