South and Southeast Asia: Links with Africa After 100,000Kya Based on DNA Studies
South and Southeast Asia: Links with Africa after 100,000kya based on DNA studies Southern expansion from East Africa to Southwest and South Asia, circa 100,000 - 80,000 to 60,000 ya Petraglia et al. 2010, Annals of Human Biology - Later branching and expansion of M and U haplogroups between 60,000 and 40,000 ya Rohri – Sindh, Pakistan – open air quarry site, Late Lower Palaeolithic, (500,000 ya) Middle Palaeolithic, (100,000 ya) Upper Palaeolithic, (30,000 -10,000 ya) Hathnora, central India- Narmada River Valley site, hominid skull identified as archaic Homo sapiens, 400,000 YA, though some would suggest that it is Homo erectus? Darra-i-Kur , Afghanistan - Middle/Upper Palaeolithic-circa 29,050 B.C. temporal bone of archaic H. sapiens. Similar to the skull of Skhul Cave in the Levant - lowest levels “hearths”, Mousterian type stone tools Hunted Wild goat/sheep and possibly cattle. Aq Kuprukian Tradition sites Gar-i-Mar (Snake Cave, AKI and Gar-i-Asp (Horse Cave, AK II) and open air site called Aq Kupruk (AK III) The importance of these sites is that they are located in an area between West Asian centers of domestication and South Asia Aq-Kupruk, 20,000-15,000YA (C14 date- 14,665 B.C.) - blade tools, points, burins scrapers, bone point, numerous faunal remains - wild sheep/goat (88%), cattle (6.5%) , horse, dog/wolf; The major subsistence indicator is animal bone Ovix/Capra (sheep/goat) - 88% Cervus elephas/ Bos (cattle)- 6.5% Equus (horse) - 1 Canis - 1 Vulpes - 1 Some of these species become domesticated eventually and domestic species are found in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic levels at these sites and other sites in the region , dating as early as 8566 B.C.
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