Human Dispersal from Siberia to Beringia

Graf, Kelly E.; Buvit, Ian

doi:10.1086/693388

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“…Based on current data, no sites associated with modern humans have been found in northern Asia and/or Siberia that date to MIS 5 or 4 (Buzhilova, Derevianko and Shunkov 2017;Graf and Buvit 2017). No sites in Europe currently exist that are clearly assigned to modern humans that date to these marine isotope stages either (Higham et al 2014).…”

Section: Laying the Foundation: Contributions From Archaeologymentioning

confidence: 85%

“…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.…”

Section: Laying the Foundation: Contributions From Archaeologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Laying the Foundation: Contributions From Archaeologymentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Laying the Foundation: Contributions From Archaeologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene

Bae¹,

Douka²,

Petraglia³

2017

Current Anthropology

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“…The timing and route by which humans arrived in the Americas have been the subjects of a long and often heated debate (68,69). Most data appear to support colonization through Beringia either via the ice corridor or the coastal route some time during or right after the last glacial maximum (~20 to 15 ka) (68).…”

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On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

Bae

Douka

Petraglia

2017

Science

298

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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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“…However, the later prevalence of ICD among native populations and cultures of the Americas may have a different interpretation. Genetic studies have revealed unquestionable Asian origins of the natives in the New World, and the archaeological records in Siberia and Beringia suggest that the initial dispersal of modern humans to North America probably occurred after 15 ka (48,49). Given those close genetic and cultural connections, the widespread native practice of ICD in the New World may derive from a continuation of this potentially ancestral cross-generational meme in northeastern Asia.…”

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Earliest-known intentionally deformed human cranial fossil from Asia and the initiation of hereditary hierarchy in the early Holocene

Stidham

et al. 2019

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Hereditary hierarchy is one of the major features of complex societies. Without a written record, prehistoric evidence for hereditary hierarchy is rare. Intentional cranial deformation (ICD) is a cross-generational cultural practice that embodies social identity and culture beliefs in adults through the behavior of altering infant head shape. Therefore, ICD is usually regarded as an archeological clue for the occurrence of hereditary hierarchy. With a calibrated radiocarbon age of 11245-11200 years BP, a fossil skull of an adult male displaying ICD discovered in Northeastern China is among the oldest-known ICD practices in the world. Along with the other earliest global occurrences of ICD, this discovery points to the early initiation of complex societies among the non-agricultural local societies in Northeastern Asia in the early Holocene. A population increase among previously more isolated terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene hunter-gatherer groups likely increased their interactions, possibly fueling the formation of the first complex societies.

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Human Dispersal from Siberia to Beringia

Cited by 63 publications

References 120 publications

Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene

Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene

On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

Earliest-known intentionally deformed human cranial fossil from Asia and the initiation of hereditary hierarchy in the early Holocene

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