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QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
卷 77, 期 -, 页码 233-238出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.012
关键词
Middle Palaeolithic; Upper Pleistocene; Thar Desert; Hominin dispersal
资金
- Emslie Horniman Scholarship (Royal Anthropological Institute)
- NERC Radiocarbon Facility [2011/2/16]
- Kathleen Hardy Scholarship
- Fyssen Foundation PostDoctoral Fellowship
- NERC [NRCF010002] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NRCF010002] Funding Source: researchfish
The Thar Desert marks the transition from the Sahara-Arabian deserts to the Oriental biogeographical zone and is therefore an important location in understanding hominin occupation and dispersal during the Upper Pleistocene. Here, we report the discovery of stratified Middle Palaeolithic assemblages at Katoati in the north-eastern Thar Desert, dating to Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 5 and the MIS 4-3 boundary, during periods of enhanced humidity. Hominins procured cobbles from gravels at the site as evidenced by early stages of stone tool reduction, with a component of more formalised point production. The MIS Sc assemblages at Katoati represent the earliest securely dated Middle Palaeolithic occupation of South Asia. Distinctive artefacts identified in both MIS 5 and MIS 4-3 boundary horizons match technological entities observed in Middle Palaeolithic assemblages in South Asia, Arabia and Middle Stone Age sites in the Sahara. The evidence from Katoati is consistent with arguments for the dispersal of Homo sapiens populations from Africa across southern Asia using Middle Palaeolithic technologies. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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