Environments and Cultural Change in the Indian Subcontinent

Blinkhorn, James; Petraglia, Michael D.

doi:10.1086/693462

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“…Blade technology, long considered one of the core components of the Upper Paleolithic in Asia, appeared in western Asia after 50 ka and arrived in South and North Asia sometime afterward. Microblades appeared during early MIS 3 in South Asia and late MIS 3 in North Asia, be-coming more prominent after 35 and 25 ka, respectively (31,33,34,94,95). Interestingly, early blade and microblade technologies have yet to be identified in Southeast Asia, including southern China.…”

Section: Cultural Diffusionmentioning

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On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

Bae

Douka

Petraglia

2017

Science

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The traditional "out of Africa" model, which posits a dispersal of modern across Eurasia as a single wave at ~60,000 years ago and the subsequent replacement of all indigenous populations, is in need of revision. Recent discoveries from archaeology, hominin paleontology, geochronology, genetics, and paleoenvironmental studies have contributed to a better understanding of the Late Pleistocene record in Asia. Important findings highlighted here include growing evidence for multiple dispersals predating 60,000 years ago in regions such as southern and eastern Asia. Modern humans moving into Asia met Neandertals, Denisovans, mid-Pleistocene, and possibly , with some degree of interbreeding occurring. These early human dispersals, which left at least some genetic traces in modern populations, indicate that later replacements were not wholesale.

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Section: Cultural Diffusionmentioning

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On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

Bae

Douka

Petraglia

2017

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“…Data for such modeling can be collected, however, from large-scale archaeological survey and excavation projects. A number of archaeologyoriented papers in this volume provide the critical necessary footing to contribute to such models currently being debated: Bretzke and Conard (2017) cover Southwest Asia; Buzhilova, Derevianko, and Shunkov (2017) discuss Central Asia; Graf and Buvit (2017) review Siberia; Blinkhorn and Petraglia (2017) cover the Indian subcontinent; Wang (2017) reviews China; and Nakazawa (2017) discusses Japan. In addition, more general reviews of the East Asian record are provided by Bae (2017) and O'Connor and colleagues (2017) for island Southeast Asia.…”

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Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene

Bae¹,

Douka²,

Petraglia³

2017

Current Anthropology

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The origin and evolution of modern humans continues to be of great interest to the scientific and public communities alike; the field has long been dominated by findings from Europe and Africa. With new discoveries of hominin fossils and archaeological sites, in addition to the application of recent genomic and paleoclimate modeling studies, findings from Asia are serving to revolutionize the field of modern human origins. The identification of Neanderthals and Denisovans in Siberia, for example, along with growing fossil and archaeological evidence for the presence of early modern humans in East and Southeast Asia, much earlier than originally thought, places the spotlight on the evolutionary history of our species in Asia over the last 125,000 years. Exciting and unanticipated new discoveries call for a need to critically reexamine the Asian record. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, a group of active researchers participated in a week-long Wenner-Gren symposium titled "Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene" (#153) in March 2016. Here we review the major themes and findings emerging from the symposium and discuss avenues to move the field forward.

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“…While the Indian fossil hominin record is non-existent for this key time period, analysis of mitochondrial DNA of contemporary populations of India indicates that the region was an important geographic stepping stone in the colonisation of Australasia by Homo sapiens 1 . At the heart of this debate is the issue of whether Homo sapiens arrived in India prior to the YTT event (dated by 40 Ar/ 36 Ar to 73.88 ± 0.32 ka 1 and 75.0 ± 0.9 ka 2 ) 2-10 with a non-microlithic African MSA technology comprised of Levallois and point technology [10][11][12] , or entered the subcontinent around 50-60 ka with Howiesons Poort microlithic technology 13 . While this debate is pivotal to understanding the archaeological signature of modern humans throughout the region, the reality is that very few sites in India are dated to the crucial time period between 80 and 50 ka, hence reliable evidence with which to test competing hypotheses is scarce.…”

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Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago

Clarkson

Harris

et al. 2020

Nat Commun

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India is located at a critical geographic crossroads for understanding the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa and into Asia and Oceania. Here we report evidence for long-term human occupation, spanning the last~80 thousand years, at the site of Dhaba in the Middle Son River Valley of Central India. An unchanging stone tool industry is found at Dhaba spanning the Toba eruption of~74 ka (i.e., the Youngest Toba Tuff, YTT) bracketed between ages of 79.6 ± 3.2 and 65.2 ± 3.1 ka, with the introduction of microlithic technology~48 ka. The lithic industry from Dhaba strongly resembles stone tool assemblages from the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Arabia, and the earliest artefacts from Australia, suggesting that it is likely the product of Homo sapiens as they dispersed eastward out of Africa.

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Environments and Cultural Change in the Indian Subcontinent

Cited by 62 publications

References 114 publications

On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene

Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago

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