The Late Quaternary palaeogeography of mammal evolution in the Indonesian Archipelago

Bergh, Gerrit D. van den; Vos, John de; Sondaar, P. Y.

doi:10.1016/s0031-0182(01)00255-3

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“…In the Pleistocene it is found in the Siwaliks, peninsular India, China and Indonesia (Nanda, 2008;Chauhan, 2008;Tong, 2006;van den Bergh et al, 2001), but also reappears in SW Asia in the late early Pleistocene, having been found at Gesher Benot Ya'acov , Evron Quarry and Latamne (see O'Regan et al, 2005 and references therein), but does not return to Africa or enter Europe at this time.…”

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Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

O’Regan

Turner

Bishop

et al. 2011

Quaternary Science Reviews

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Discoveries of fossil Homo outside Africa predating 1.0 Ma have generated much discussion about hominin dispersal routes. However, tool-using bipeds were only one element of the inter-continental mammalian dispersals that occurred during the climatic changes of the Pliocene and Pleistocene. This paper will place hominin movements in the context of those of the wider mammalian fauna, which includes carnivores, bovids and non-human primates. The distribution of these different taxa suggests that species moved individually when the environmental conditions were right for them, rather than in multi-species waves of dispersal, and allows evaluation of the contextual evidence for the newly emerging 'Out of Asia' paradigm as well as the established 'Out of Africa' model.

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Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

O’Regan

Turner

Bishop

et al. 2011

Quaternary Science Reviews

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“…This hypothesis has been supported by low levels of genetic divergence between populations of some Sunda shelf mammals (Campbell et al, 2004(Campbell et al, , 2006Gorog et al, 2004;Lucchini et al, 2005;Roos et al, 2003). However, the vegetation during the Pleistocene glacial periods was undoubtedly very different from the present, and the interactions between climate and sea level and their effects on the distribution of the fauna and flora is complex (van den Bergh et al, 2001). For example, Cranbrook (2000) interpreted the large mammal fauna of the Pleistocene of coastal Borneo as being more adapted to savannas than to the rainforests of the present.…”

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Speciation dynamics in the SE Asian tropics: Putting a time perspective on the phylogeny and biogeography of Sundaland tree squirrels, Sundasciurus

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Thorington

Maldonado

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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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“…Figure 4 summarizes the dominant features of a glacial Middle Pleistocene Asia that was dominated by low-frequency, high-amplitude climatic change characterized by major latitudinal differences between glacials and interglacials and an It is suggested that under these increasingly severe conditions, hominids were still largely confined to south of 40° N, except in interglacial periods, when they were able to disperse into Central Asia and northern China. Sources: Dowsett et al (1999) for the distribution of deserts and grasslands; Jablonski et al (2000) for the paleo coastline of China at times of low sea level and the tropical/subtropical boundary; and van den Bergh et al (2001) for the paleocoastline of Indonesia at times oflow sea level.…”

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Hominid Dispersals and Asian Biogeography during the Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene, c. 2.0-0.5 Mya

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This paper examines the environmental context of human dispersals into Asia up to 0.5 mya. These dispersals were probably intermittent, often discontinuous, and initially confined to warm grasslands and open woodlands across southern Asia. During the Early Pleistocene, the effects of the uplift of Tibet and the inception of the monsoon were muted by the low-amplitude nature of northern hemisphere glaciations. By the Middle Pleistocene, further uplift, stronger monsoonal circulation, and higher-amplitude, glacial-interglacial cycles made much of Southwest and Central Asia more arid than previously. Two other Mid-Pleistocene developments were important: first, the appearance of Acheulean assemblages, possibly as far east as southern China; and secondly, the first appearance of hominids at latitudes 40–45oN during interglacial episodes. Hominid dispersals in both Europe and Asia were probably broadly similar in that hominids did not habitually live beyond 40oN until c. 500 kya. Rather than dividing Asia longitudinally into areas east or west of the Movius line, latitudinal divisions between warm/hot and cool/cold environments might be more appropriate.

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The Late Quaternary palaeogeography of mammal evolution in the Indonesian Archipelago

Cited by 273 publications

References 17 publications

Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

Speciation dynamics in the SE Asian tropics: Putting a time perspective on the phylogeny and biogeography of Sundaland tree squirrels, Sundasciurus

Hominid Dispersals and Asian Biogeography during the Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene, c. 2.0-0.5 Mya

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