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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0273984
	Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene
	Finestone, Emma M.; Breeze, Paul S.; Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M.; Drake, Nick; Bergmann, Laura; Maksudov, Farhod; Muhammadiyev, Akmal; Scott, Pete; Cai, Yanjun; Khatsenovich, Arina M.; Rybin, Evgeny P.; Nehrke, Gernot; Boivin, Nicole; Petra, Michael
通讯作者	Finestone, EM
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2022
卷号	17 期号:10
英文摘要	Central Asia is positioned at a crossroads linking several zones important to hominin dispersal during the Middle Pleistocene. However, the scarcity of stratified and dated archaeological material and paleoclimate records makes it difficult to understand dispersal and occupation dynamics during this time period, especially in arid zones. Here we compile and analyze paleoclimatic and archaeological data from Pleistocene Central Asia, including examination of a new layer-counted speleothem-based multiproxy record of hydrological changes in southern Uzbekistan at the end of MIS 11. Our findings indicate that Lower Palaeolithic sites in the steppe, semi-arid, and desert zones of Central Asia may have served as key areas for the dispersal of hominins into Eurasia during the Middle Pleistocene. In agreement with previous studies, we find that bifaces occur across these zones at higher latitudes and in lower altitudes relative to the other Paleolithic assemblages. We argue that arid Central Asia would have been intermittently habitable during the Middle Pleistocene when long warm interglacial phases coincided with periods when the Caspian Sea was experiencing consistently high water levels, resulting in greater moisture availability and more temperate conditions in otherwise arid regions. During periodic intervals in the Middle Pleistocene, the local environment of arid Central Asia was likely a favorable habitat for paleolithic hominins and was frequented by Lower Paleolithic toolmakers producing bifaces.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, Green Accepted, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000923638200001
WOS关键词	SITE FORMATION PROCESSES ; HOMO-ERECTUS ; GENOME SEQUENCE ; OXYGEN-ISOTOPE ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; DENISOVA CAVE ; CENTRAL JAVA ; OBI-RAKHMAT ; TIEN-SHAN ; NEANDERTHAL
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/2XILL650/394042
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Finestone, Emma M.,Breeze, Paul S.,Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M.,et al. Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene[J],2022,17(10).
APA	Finestone, Emma M..,Breeze, Paul S..,Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M..,Drake, Nick.,Bergmann, Laura.,...&Petra, Michael.(2022).Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene.PLOS ONE,17(10).
MLA	Finestone, Emma M.,et al."Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene".PLOS ONE 17.10(2022).