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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0069280 |
Continuity of Microblade Technology in the Indian Subcontinent Since 45 ka: Implications for the Dispersal of Modern Humans | |
Mishra, Sheila1; Chauhan, Naveen2; Singhvi, Ashok K.2 | |
通讯作者 | Mishra, Sheila |
来源期刊 | PLOS ONE
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ISSN | 1932-6203 |
出版年 | 2013 |
卷号 | 8期号:7 |
英文摘要 | We extend the continuity of microblade technology in the Indian Subcontinent to 45 ka, on the basis of optical dating of microblade assemblages from the site of Mehtakheri, (22 degrees 13’ 44 ’’ N Lat 76 degrees 01’ 36 ’’ E Long) in Madhya Pradesh, India. Microblade technology in the Indian Subcontinent is continuously present from its first appearance until the Iron Age (similar to 3 ka), making its association with modern humans undisputed. It has been suggested that microblade technology in the Indian Subcontinent was developed locally by modern humans after 35 ka. The dates reported here from Mehtakheri show this inference to be untenable and suggest alternatively that this technology arrived in the Indian Subcontinent with the earliest modern humans. It also shows that modern humans in Indian Subcontinent and SE Asia were associated with differing technologies and this calls into question the "southern dispersal" route of modern humans from Africa through India to SE Asia and then to Australia. We suggest that modern humans dispersed from Africa in two stages coinciding with the warmer interglacial conditions of MIS 5 and MIS 3. Competitive interactions between African modern humans and Indian archaics who shared an adaptation to tropical environments differed from that between modern humans and archaics like Neanderthals and Denisovans, who were adapted to temperate environments. Thus, while modern humans expanded into temperate regions during warmer climates, their expansion into tropical regions, like the Indian Subcontinent, in competition with similarly adapted populations, occurred during arid climates. Thus modern humans probably entered the Indian Subcontinent during the arid climate of MIS 4 coinciding with their disappearance from the Middle East and Northern Africa. The out of phase expansion of modern humans into tropical versus temperate regions has been one of the factors affecting the dispersal of modern humans from Africa during the period 200-40 ka. |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | India |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI ; AHCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000321271900051 |
WOS关键词 | PLEISTOCENE HOMO-SAPIENS ; RAIN-FOREST FAUNA ; SOUTHEAST-ASIA ; BLADE PRODUCTION ; HOWIESONS POORT ; QESEM CAVE ; STONE-AGE ; MIDDLE ; AFRICA ; EAST |
WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/179381 |
作者单位 | 1.Deemed Univ, Deccan Coll, Dept Archaeol, Pune, Maharashtra, India; 2.Phys Res Lab, Geosci Div, Ahmadabad 380009, Gujarat, India |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mishra, Sheila,Chauhan, Naveen,Singhvi, Ashok K.. Continuity of Microblade Technology in the Indian Subcontinent Since 45 ka: Implications for the Dispersal of Modern Humans[J],2013,8(7). |
APA | Mishra, Sheila,Chauhan, Naveen,&Singhvi, Ashok K..(2013).Continuity of Microblade Technology in the Indian Subcontinent Since 45 ka: Implications for the Dispersal of Modern Humans.PLOS ONE,8(7). |
MLA | Mishra, Sheila,et al."Continuity of Microblade Technology in the Indian Subcontinent Since 45 ka: Implications for the Dispersal of Modern Humans".PLOS ONE 8.7(2013). |
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