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DOI10.1038/nature20125
Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia
Hamm, Giles1; Mitchell, Peter2; Arnold, Lee J.3,4; Prideaux, Gavin J.5; Questiaux, Daniele6; Spooner, Nigel A.6,7; Levchenko, Vladimir A.8; Foley, Elizabeth C.1; Worthy, Trevor H.5; Stephenson, Birgitta9,10; Coulthard, Vincent11; Coulthard, Clifford11; Wilton, Sophia11; Johnston, Duncan11
通讯作者Hamm, Giles
来源期刊NATURE
ISSN0028-0836
EISSN1476-4687
出版年2016
卷号539期号:7628页码:280-+
英文摘要

Elucidating the material culture of early people in arid Australia and the nature of their environmental interactions is essential for understanding the adaptability of populations and the potential causes of megafaunal extinctions 50-40 thousand years ago (ka). Humans colonized the continent by 50 ka(1,2), but an apparent lack of cultural innovations compared to people in Europe and Africa(3,4) has been deemed a barrier to early settlement in the extensive arid zone(2,3). Here we present evidence from Warratyi rock shelter in the southern interior that shows that humans occupied arid Australia by around 49 ka, 10 thousand years (kyr) earlier than previously reported(2). The site preserves the only reliably dated, stratified evidence of extinct Australian megafauna(5,6), including the giant marsupial Diprotodon optatum, alongside artefacts more than 46 kyr old. We also report on the earliest-known use of ochre in Australia and Southeast Asia (at or before 49-46 ka), gypsum pigment (40-33 ka), bone tools (40-38 ka), hafted tools (38-35 ka), and backed artefacts (30-24 ka), each up to 10 kyr older than any other known occurrence(7,8). Thus, our evidence shows that people not only settled in the arid interior within a few millennia of entering the continent(9), but also developed key technologies much earlier than previously recorded for Australia and Southeast Asia(8).


类型Article
语种英语
国家Australia
收录类别SCI-E ; SSCI ; AHCI
WOS记录号WOS:000387318500043
WOS关键词LATE PLEISTOCENE ; SINGLE GRAINS ; LUMINESCENCE ; QUARTZ ; EXTINCTION ; LOESS ; HOLOCENE ; SOUTH ; OSL ; DISTRIBUTIONS
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/2XILL650/195178
作者单位1.La Trobe Univ, Dept Archaeol & Hist, Melbourne, Vic 3083, Australia;
2.Geomorph Consultant Gladesville, Sydney, NSW 2111, Australia;
3.Univ Adelaide, Inst Environm, Sch Phys Sci, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia;
4.Univ Adelaide, Inst Photon & Adv Sensing, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia;
5.Flinders Univ S Australia, Sch Biol Sci, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia;
6.Univ Adelaide, Sch Phys Sci, Inst Photon & Adv Sensing, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia;
7.Def Sci & Technol Grp, Adelaide, SA 5111, Australia;
8.Australian Nucl Sci & Technol Org, Sydney, NSW 2234, Australia;
9.Groove Anal Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Qld 4068, Australia;
10.Univ Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia;
11.Adnyamathanha Tradit Lands Assoc, Port Augusta, SA 5700, Australia
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Hamm, Giles,Mitchell, Peter,Arnold, Lee J.,et al. Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia[J],2016,539(7628):280-+.
APA Hamm, Giles.,Mitchell, Peter.,Arnold, Lee J..,Prideaux, Gavin J..,Questiaux, Daniele.,...&Johnston, Duncan.(2016).Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia.NATURE,539(7628),280-+.
MLA Hamm, Giles,et al."Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia".NATURE 539.7628(2016):280-+.
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