Dating of the Upper Pleistocene Lithic Industry of Sardinia

Hofmeijer, Gerard Klein; Alderliesten, C.; Borg, Klaas van der; Houston, C M; Jong, A.F.M. de; Martini, Fabio; Sanges, Mario; Sondaar, P. Y.; Visser, J P de

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“…Note that the above view does not necessarily imply that the first Sardinians were Neolithic farmers. On the contrary, there is archeological evidence indicating that humans were present on the island by at least 13 Kya ( Hofmeijer et al 1989 ; Dyson and Rowland 2007 ; Broodbank 2013 ). Moreover, a European pre-Neolithic origin for Y-chromosome haplogroup I2a1a1-M26, by far the most common in modern Sardinian males (38.9%) ( Francalacci et al 2013 ), has been postulated ( Rootsi et al 2004 ).…”

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Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: A Genetic Window onto an Island's Past

Olivieri¹,

Sidore²,

Achilli³

et al. 2017

Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Sardinians are “outliers” in the European genetic landscape and, according to paleogenomic nuclear data, the closest to early European Neolithic farmers. To learn more about their genetic ancestry, we analyzed 3,491 modern and 21 ancient mitogenomes from Sardinia. We observed that 78.4% of modern mitogenomes cluster into 89 haplogroups that most likely arose in situ. For each Sardinian-specific haplogroup (SSH), we also identified the upstream node in the phylogeny, from which non-Sardinian mitogenomes radiate. This provided minimum and maximum time estimates for the presence of each SSH on the island. In agreement with demographic evidence, almost all SSHs coalesce in the post-Nuragic, Nuragic and Neolithic-Copper Age periods. For some rare SSHs, however, we could not dismiss the possibility that they might have been on the island prior to the Neolithic, a scenario that would be in agreement with archeological evidence of a Mesolithic occupation of Sardinia.

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Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: A Genetic Window onto an Island's Past

Olivieri¹,

Sidore²,

Achilli³

et al. 2017

Molecular Biology and Evolution

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“…This seems plausible; however, the arrival of the canid Cynotherium sardous, which specialized in hunting small, fast game, may also account for such a change. Lithic artifacts are found only throughout Layers 2 and 3, dating to 13,000 years ago, and technological changes are thought to reflect adaptation to different functional activities on the island (Hofmeijer et al 1989). Human remains from the cave suggest H. sapiens, rather than a Middle Pleistocene hominin, were the hunters (Spoor 1999).…”

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Pleistocene Water Crossings and Adaptive Flexibility Within the Homo Genus

Gaffney

2020

J Archaeol Res

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Pleistocene water crossings, long thought to be an innovation of Homo sapiens, may extend beyond our species to encompass Middle and Early Pleistocene Homo. However, it remains unclear how water crossings differed among hominin populations, the extent to which Homo sapiens are uniquely flexible in these adaptive behaviors, and how the tempo and scale of water crossings played out in different regions. I apply the adaptive flexibility hypothesis, derived from cognitive ecology, to model the global data and address these questions. Water-crossing behaviors appear to have emerged among different regional hominin populations in similar ecologies, initially representing nonstrategic range expansion. However, an increasing readiness to form connections with novel environments allowed some H. sapiens populations to eventually push water crossings to new extremes, moving out of sight of land, making return crossings to maintain social ties and build viable founder populations, and dramatically shifting subsistence and lithic provisioning strategies to meet the challenges of variable ecological settings.

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“…16.6). There are claims for earlier Stone Age finds in Sardinia, but these remain controversial and are not universally accepted because of doubts about stratigraphic integrity and chronology (Klein Hofmeijer et al 1989;Mussi 2002; see also Dawson 2013). The implication of the evidence from the Alghero Antonioli et al (1996) and Palombo et al (2017, Fig.…”

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