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DOI	10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.056
	The potential impacts of climate factors and malaria on the Middle Palaeolithic population patterns of ancient humans
	Trajer, Attila J.; Sebestyen, Viktor; Domokos, Endre
通讯作者	Trajer, AJ
来源期刊	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
ISSN	1040-6182
EISSN	1873-4553
出版年	2020
卷号	565 页码:94-108
英文摘要	Previous studies that observed the fact that Middle Palaeolithic sites mainly were concentrated in arid and semi-arid areas in Africa and Southwest Asia, concluded that climate factors determined the distribution patterns. We argue that biological factors could have been equally important. In present-day sub-Saharan Africa, mosquito borne diseases and especially falciparum malaria have a serious impact on human populations. This study was aimed to investigate the possible former effect of falciparum malaria on Middle Palaeolithic site distribution patterns and explain why ancient humans avoided the humid areas in the tropical and subtropical regions. It was found that the early human settlements situated in those regions of Africa and Southwest Asia where the potential annual development period of falciparum parasites was short in the mosquitoes, the area was not too humid, and the potential falciparum malaria incidence values were low or moderate. In the Indian Peninsula, precipitation played a less significant role in determining human settlements. The number of the months when the extrinsic development of Plasmodium falciparum parasites was possible showed the strongest structural overlap with the modelled malaria incidences according to the spatial occurrence of the Middle Paleolithic archaeological sites in the case of Africa and in Southwest Asia. In the Indian Peninsula, climatic factors showed the strongest structural overlap with the modelled malaria incidences according to the occurrence patterns of the Middle Palaeolithic archaeological sites.
英文关键词	Aridity index Precipitation Plasmodium Extrinsic development Structural networks
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000591554600005
WOS关键词	PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM ; HUMAN OCCUPATION ; AFRICAN ORIGIN ; RISK-FACTORS ; STONE-AGE ; HISTORY ; DIVERSITY ; EXPANSION ; CHILDREN ; VIVAX
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/327592
作者单位	[Trajer, Attila J.; Sebestyen, Viktor; Domokos, Endre] Univ Pannonia, Sustainabil Solut Res Lab, Egyet Utca 10, H-8200 Veszprem, Hungary
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Trajer, Attila J.,Sebestyen, Viktor,Domokos, Endre. The potential impacts of climate factors and malaria on the Middle Palaeolithic population patterns of ancient humans[J],2020,565:94-108.
APA	Trajer, Attila J.,Sebestyen, Viktor,&Domokos, Endre.(2020).The potential impacts of climate factors and malaria on the Middle Palaeolithic population patterns of ancient humans.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,565,94-108.
MLA	Trajer, Attila J.,et al."The potential impacts of climate factors and malaria on the Middle Palaeolithic population patterns of ancient humans".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 565(2020):94-108.