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Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior

The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non-African people. Here, we report hominin and non-hominin mammalian tracks from an ancient lake deposit in the Arabian Peninsu...

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Autores principales: Stewart, Mathew, Clark-Wilson, Richard, Breeze, Paul S., Janulis, Klint, Candy, Ian, Armitage, Simon J., Ryves, David B., Louys, Julien, Duval, Mathieu, Price, Gilbert J., Cuthbertson, Patrick, Bernal, Marco A., Drake, Nick A., Alsharekh, Abdullah M., Zahrani, Badr, Al-Omari, Abdulaziz, Roberts, Patrick, Groucutt, Huw S., Petraglia, Michael D.
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Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7500939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32948582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba8940
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author Stewart, Mathew
Clark-Wilson, Richard
Breeze, Paul S.
Janulis, Klint
Candy, Ian
Armitage, Simon J.
Ryves, David B.
Louys, Julien
Duval, Mathieu
Price, Gilbert J.
Cuthbertson, Patrick
Bernal, Marco A.
Drake, Nick A.
Alsharekh, Abdullah M.
Zahrani, Badr
Al-Omari, Abdulaziz
Roberts, Patrick
Groucutt, Huw S.
Petraglia, Michael D.
author_facet Stewart, Mathew
Clark-Wilson, Richard
Breeze, Paul S.
Janulis, Klint
Candy, Ian
Armitage, Simon J.
Ryves, David B.
Louys, Julien
Duval, Mathieu
Price, Gilbert J.
Cuthbertson, Patrick
Bernal, Marco A.
Drake, Nick A.
Alsharekh, Abdullah M.
Zahrani, Badr
Al-Omari, Abdulaziz
Roberts, Patrick
Groucutt, Huw S.
Petraglia, Michael D.
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description The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non-African people. Here, we report hominin and non-hominin mammalian tracks from an ancient lake deposit in the Arabian Peninsula, dated within the last interglacial. The findings, it is argued, likely represent the oldest securely dated evidence for Homo sapiens in Arabia. The paleoecological evidence indicates a well-watered semi-arid grassland setting during human movements into the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. We conclude that visitation to the lake was transient, likely serving as a place to drink and to forage, and that late Pleistocene human and mammalian migrations and landscape use patterns in Arabia were inexorably linked.
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spelling pubmed-75009392020-09-24 Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior Stewart, Mathew Clark-Wilson, Richard Breeze, Paul S. Janulis, Klint Candy, Ian Armitage, Simon J. Ryves, David B. Louys, Julien Duval, Mathieu Price, Gilbert J. Cuthbertson, Patrick Bernal, Marco A. Drake, Nick A. Alsharekh, Abdullah M. Zahrani, Badr Al-Omari, Abdulaziz Roberts, Patrick Groucutt, Huw S. Petraglia, Michael D. Sci Adv Research Articles The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non-African people. Here, we report hominin and non-hominin mammalian tracks from an ancient lake deposit in the Arabian Peninsula, dated within the last interglacial. The findings, it is argued, likely represent the oldest securely dated evidence for Homo sapiens in Arabia. The paleoecological evidence indicates a well-watered semi-arid grassland setting during human movements into the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. We conclude that visitation to the lake was transient, likely serving as a place to drink and to forage, and that late Pleistocene human and mammalian migrations and landscape use patterns in Arabia were inexorably linked. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7500939/ /pubmed/32948582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba8940 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Articles
Stewart, Mathew
Clark-Wilson, Richard
Breeze, Paul S.
Janulis, Klint
Candy, Ian
Armitage, Simon J.
Ryves, David B.
Louys, Julien
Duval, Mathieu
Price, Gilbert J.
Cuthbertson, Patrick
Bernal, Marco A.
Drake, Nick A.
Alsharekh, Abdullah M.
Zahrani, Badr
Al-Omari, Abdulaziz
Roberts, Patrick
Groucutt, Huw S.
Petraglia, Michael D.
Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior
title Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior
title_full Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior
title_fullStr Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior
title_full_unstemmed Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior
title_short Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior
title_sort human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the arabian interior
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7500939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32948582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba8940
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