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Human Dispersal from Siberia to Beringia: Assessing a Beringian Standstill in Light of the Archaeological Evidence
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by ScholarWorks at Central Washington University Central Washington University ScholarWorks@CWU All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences College of the Sciences 12-2017 Human Dispersal from Siberia to Beringia: Assessing a Beringian Standstill in Light of the Archaeological Evidence Kelly E. Graf Ian Buvit Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cotsfac Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons, and the Genetics Commons Current Anthropology Volume 58, Supplement 17, December 2017 S583 Human Dispersal from Siberia to Beringia Assessing a Beringian Standstill in Light of the Archaeological Evidence by Kelly E. Graf and Ian Buvit With genetic studies showing unquestionable Asian origins of the first Americans, the Siberian and Beringian ar- chaeological records are absolutely critical for understanding the initial dispersal of modern humans in the Western Hemisphere. The genetics-based Beringian Standstill Model posits a three-stage dispersal process and necessitates several expectations of the archaeological record of northeastern Asia. Here we present an overview of the Siberian and Beringian Upper Paleolithic records and discuss them in the context of a Beringian Standstill. We report that not every expectation of the model is met with archaeological data at hand. The paleoanthropology of northeastern Asia and Alaska is and arid conditions during the LGM (e.g., Kuzmina and Sher paramount to understanding initial human dispersal in the 2006; Szpak et al. 2010). Here we consider the archaeological Western Hemisphere because of their Late Pleistocene con- records of Siberia and Beringia in the context of the Beringian nection by the Bering Land Bridge, the now submerged con- Standstill Model (BSM), a hypothesis proposed by geneticists tinental shelf below the Bering Strait between far northeastern to explain late Pleistocene dispersal of modern humans from Russia and western Alaska. -
Current Anthropology
Forthcoming Current Anthropology Wenner-Gren Symposium Current Anthropology Supplementary Issues (in order of appearance) Current VOLUME 58 SUPPLEMENT 17 DECEMBER 2017 The Anthropology of Corruption. Sarah Muir and Akhil Gupta, eds. Cultures of Militarism. Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson, eds. Patchy Anthropocene. Anna Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Andrew Mathews, eds. Anthropology Previously Published Supplementary Issues Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas. Setha M. Low and Sally Engle Merry, eds. THE WENNER-GREN SYMPOSIUM SERIES Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form. December 2017 Damani Partridge, Marina Welker, and Rebecca Hardin, eds. The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas. T. Douglas Price and HUMAN COLONIZATION OF ASIA IN THE LATE PLEISTOCENE Ofer Bar-Yosef, eds. GUEST EDITORS: CHRISTOPHER J. BAE, KATERINA DOUKA, The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, AND MICHAEL D. PETRAGLIA National Styles, and International Networks. Susan Lindee and Ricardo Ventura Santos, eds. Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene Human Biology and the Origins of Homo. Susan Antón and Leslie C. Aiello, eds. Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene: The History of an Invasive Species Potentiality and Humanness: Revisiting the Anthropological Object in 58 Volume A Genomic View of the Pleistocene Population History of Asia Contemporary Biomedicine. Klaus Hoeyer and Karen-Sue Taussig, eds. Testing Modern Human Out-of-Africa Dispersal Models Using Dental Nonmetric Data Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Middle Archaic Hominin Populations in Asia before the Arrival of Modern Humans: Their Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Steven L. Kuhn and Erella Hovers, eds. -
School of Archaeology
OXFORD School of Archaeology Annual Report 2013–2014 THE SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY The School of Archaeology is one of the premier departments in the world for the study and teaching of the human past. Comprised primarily of the Institute of Archaeology and the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, the School hosts a dynamic faculty, nearly one hundred undergraduates, and a large cohort of outstanding graduate students each year. It is one of the few places in the world where the many facets of archaeology come together to explore themes such as human origins and early hunter-gatherers, the ancient environment, classical and historical archaeology, and chronology. School of Archaeology 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG www.arch.ox.ac.uk Reception +44(0)1865 278240 Andrew Wilson (Head of School) [email protected] Lidia Lozano (Administrator) [email protected] Barbara Morris (Graduate Administrator) [email protected] Lynda Smithson (Academic Secretary) [email protected] Jeremy Worth (ICT Manager) [email protected] Stephen Hick (Finance Officer) [email protected] Institute of Archaeology 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG www.arch.ox.ac.uk/institute Reception +44(0)1865 278240 Chris Gosden (Director) [email protected] Lidia Lozano (Administrator) [email protected] Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY www.rlaha.ox.ac.uk Reception +44(0)1865 285222 Mark Pollard (Director) [email protected] Diane Baker (Administrator) [email protected] Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY http://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk Reception +44(0)1865 285229 Christopher Ramsey (Director) [email protected] Cover photo: Moel y Gaer, Bodfari, geophysical survey in the hillfort interior. -
Quaternary Science Reviews 28 (2009) 1257–1267
Quaternary Science Reviews 28 (2009) 1257–1267 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Quaternary Science Reviews journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/quascirev Problems with radiocarbon dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy Thomas Higham a,*, Fiona Brock a, Marco Peresani b, Alberto Broglio b, Rachel Wood a, Katerina Douka a a Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, South Parks Road, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, England, UK b Universita` di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Biologia ed Evoluzione, Sezione di Paleobiologia, Preistoria e Antropologia, Corso Ercole I d’Este, 32-44100 Ferrara, Italy article info abstract Article history: Radiocarbon dating of material from Late Pleistocene archaeological sites is challenging. Small amounts Received 11 August 2008 of modern 14C-labelled contamination will significantly affect the reliability of dates from the period, Received in revised form producing erroneous results. Recent developments in sample pre-treatment chemistry have shown that 9 December 2008 problems in reliable age determination during this period are surmountable. In this paper we provide an Accepted 12 December 2008 example of one such case, from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transitional site of the Grotta di Fumane, in northern Italy. We AMS dated two fractions of the same charcoal samples derived from a series of superimposed Mousterian, Aurignacian and Gravettian levels excavated at the site. One fraction was treated using the routine acid–base–acid (ABA) method, the other with the more rigorous acid–base- oxidation/stepped combustion (ABOx–SC) method. The latter method produced consistently older, and almost certainly more reliable, results. -
Age Estimates for Hominin Fossils and the Onset of the Upper Palaeolithic
LETTER https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0870-z Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave Katerina Douka1,2*, Viviane Slon3, Zenobia Jacobs4,5, Christopher Bronk Ramsey2, Michael V. Shunkov6,7, Anatoly P. Derevianko6,8, Fabrizio Mafessoni3, Maxim B. Kozlikin6, Bo Li4,5, Rainer Grün9, Daniel Comeskey2, Thibaut Devièse2, Samantha Brown1, Bence Viola10, Leslie Kinsley11, Michael Buckley12, Matthias Meyer3, Richard G. Roberts4,5, Svante Pääbo3, Janet Kelso3 & Tom Higham2* Denisova Cave in the Siberian Altai (Russia) is a key site for The chronology of the site and the age of the recovered human understanding the complex relationships between hominin remains are key unresolved issues. Previous attempts at building a groups that inhabited Eurasia in the Middle and Late Pleistocene chronology at Denisova Cave have used radiocarbon dating in the epoch. DNA sequenced from human remains found at this uppermost sections, and thermoluminescence dating in the older site has revealed the presence of a hitherto unknown hominin layers9. More recently, radiocarbon dating from the uppermost group, the Denisovans1,2, and high-coverage genomes from Pleistocene layers in East Chamber revealed some age variations, which both Neanderthal and Denisovan fossils provide evidence for were ascribed to taphonomic mixing and carnivore bioturbation2. admixture between these two populations3. Determining the age A set of optical ages10 has been obtained from Pleistocene sedimentary of these fossils is important if we are to understand the nature of layers in all three chambers. hominin interaction, and aspects of their cultural and subsistence Here we report 50 radiocarbon determinations from 40 samples, adaptations. -
A Genome Sequence from a Modern Human Skull Over
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia Kay Prüfer, Cosimo Posth, He Yu, Alexander Stoessel, Maria Spyrou, Thibaut Deviese, Marco Mattonai, Erika Ribechini, Thomas Higham, Petr Velemínský, et al. To cite this version: Kay Prüfer, Cosimo Posth, He Yu, Alexander Stoessel, Maria Spyrou, et al.. A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia. Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature, 2021, 10.1038/s41559-021-01443-x. hal-03192787 HAL Id: hal-03192787 https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03192787 Submitted on 8 Apr 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NoDerivatives| 4.0 International License ARTICLES https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01443-x A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia Kay Prüfer 1,2,10 ✉ , Cosimo Posth 1,3,10 ✉ , He Yu 1, Alexander Stoessel1,2,4, Maria A. Spyrou 1,3, Thibaut Deviese5,6, Marco Mattonai 7, Erika Ribechini 7, Thomas Higham5, Petr Velemínský8, Jaroslav Brůžek 9 and Johannes Krause 1,2 ✉ Modern humans expanded into Eurasia more than 40,000 years ago following their dispersal out of Africa. -
The Origins of the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia
J World Prehist (2011) 24:227–274 DOI 10.1007/s10963-011-9054-6 The Origins of the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia Charles Higham • Thomas Higham • Roberto Ciarla • Katerina Douka • Amphan Kijngam • Fiorella Rispoli Published online: 10 December 2011 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract White and Hamilton (J World Prehist 22: 357–97, 2009) have proposed a model for the origin of the Southeast Asian Bronze Age founded on seven AMS radio- carbon determinations from the Northeast Thai site of Ban Chiang, which would date the initial Bronze Age there to about 2000 BC. Since this date is too early for the derivation of a bronze industry from the documented exchange that linked Southeast Asia with Chinese states during the 2nd millennium BC, they have identified the Seima-Turbino 3rd mil- lennium BC forest-steppe technology of the area between the Urals and the Altai as the source of the Southeast Asian Bronze Age. We challenge this model by presenting a new chronological framework for Ban Chiang, which supports our model that the knowledge of bronze metallurgy reached Southeast Asia only in the late 2nd millennium BC, through contact with the states of the Yellow and Yangtze valleys. Keywords Southeast Asia Á Bronze Age Á Thailand Á Ban Non Wat Á Ban Chiang Á Shang civilization Á Seima-Turbino Introduction This paper addresses the timing and cultural implications of the initial establishment of the Southeast Asian Bronze Age in response to the model proposed by White and Hamilton C. Higham (&) Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] T.