A demographic history of Late Pleistocene China

Dennell, Robin; Martinón‐Torres, María; Castro, José Marı́a Bermúdez de; Gao, Xing

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.014

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“…This led to the proposition that the other previously discovered archaic humans in the region may in fact be Denisovans, such as, among others, the Xujiayao and Penghu-1 individuals (Figure S1). 30,32,33 Additionally, the physical evidence for a previously undescribed hominin in Luzon 67 kya, where present-day Negritos reside, 34,35 combined with the genetic evidence presented here, raises the possibility that the suggested Homo luzonensis and Denisovans were likely genetically related, either as distinct forms or possibly belonging to the same group residing on the islands. 36,37 Furthermore, it is not entirely impossible that the recently identified new species of archaic hominins in the Indonesian island of Flores, the Homo floresiensis, 38 may also be related to Denisovans.…”

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Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world

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Section: Simulations Support Two Distinct Denisovan Lineages Introgressing Independently Into Ayta Negritos and Papuansmentioning

confidence: 65%

Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world

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“…Our findings also question the relationship between the changes in the rainforest environment and the major turnover of earlier hominins ( H. erectus , Denisovans) in SE Asia before the arrival of H. sapiens. Indeed, in the assumption that archaic hominins were not able to adapt to a rainforest habitat 5 , 11 , 17 , an environment like that of Coc Muoi could have been an obstacle for their local settlement.…”

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“…The dispersal route of H. sapiens towards southern China likely crossed Indochina 15 , but the timing of this event, its process —one or several waves possibly since ~ 100 thousand years ago (ka) 16 , 17 —and how H. sapiens adapted to rainforest environments remain unresolved. Certainly, the paucity of detailed chronology for several SE Asian sites contributes to obscuring our understanding of the period.…”

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A multi-proxy approach to exploring Homo sapiens’ arrival, environments and adaptations in Southeast Asia

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The capability of Pleistocene hominins to successfully adapt to different types of tropical forested environments has long been debated. In order to investigate environmental changes in Southeast Asia during a critical period for the turnover of hominin species, we analysed palaeoenvironmental proxies from five late Middle to Late Pleistocene faunas. Human teeth discoveries have been reported at Duoi U’Oi, Vietnam (70–60 ka) and Nam Lot, Laos (86–72 ka). However, the use of palaeoproteomics allowed us to discard the latter, and, to date, no human remains older than ~ 70 ka are documented in the area. Our findings indicate that tropical rainforests were highly sensitive to climatic changes over that period, with significant fluctuations of the canopy forests. Locally, large-bodied faunas were resilient to these fluctuations until the cooling period of the Marine Isotope Stage 4 (MIS 4; 74–59 ka) that transformed the overall biotope. Then, under strong selective pressures, populations with new phenotypic characteristics emerged while some other species disappeared. We argue that this climate-driven shift offered new foraging opportunities for hominins in a novel rainforest environment and was most likely a key factor in the settlement and dispersal of our species during MIS 4 in SE Asia.

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“…Instead, distinct events should be considered, including inland dispersals across Central and Northeast Asia (e.g. Beeton et al 2014;Bergström et al 2021;Dennell 2017Dennell , 2020Dennell et al 2020;Goebel 1999;Goebel 2015;Li et al 2019;Reyes-Centeno et al 2015;Rybin 2014;Zwyns 2012). Contemporaneous but not yet firmly associated with Homo sapiens skeletal remains, the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) assemblages in Asia could represent evidence for such a longdistance population migration extending eastward from the Middle East to the Yellow River, and perhaps even beyond (Brantingham et al 2004;Fu et al 2014;Madsen et al 2014;.…”

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The Initial Upper Paleolithic in Central and East Asia: Blade Technology, Cultural Transmission, and Implications for Human Dispersals

Zwyns

2021

J Paleo Arch

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Archaeological assemblages labeled as Initial Upper Paleolithic are often seen as possible evidence for dispersals of Homo sapiens populations in Eurasia, ca. 45,000 years ago. While most authors agree that the IUP can be recognized by a set of shared features, there is far less consensus on what these features are, and what they mean. Because of methodological challenges inherent to long distance comparisons, documenting and establishing a firm connection between archaeological assemblages remain difficult and often draw legitimate skepticism. There could be many reasons why Paleolithic hunter-gatherers used comparable technologies, but it usually comes down to two kinds of processes: cultural transmission or convergence. In other words, technological similarities may illustrate a cultural link between regions or may be caused by mechanisms of independent reinvention between more distantly related populations. Here, I focus on three assemblages from the Siberian Altai, Zabaikal region, and North Mongolia to address one main question: is there such thing as a united IUP in Central and East Asia, or are we looking at unrelated yet comparable adaptive processes? First, I describe the common structure of lithic blade production at the sites, with special attention to derived features relative to the regional sequence. After comparing the complexity of the production system with those of other lithic technologies, I suggest that this coherent, intricate, yet unprecedented technological pattern found across contiguous regions in Asia is better explained by transmission processes than by multiple unrelated reinventions, or local developments. The blade production system described in Siberia and Mongolia reoccur as a package, which is consistent with indirect bias and/or conformist cultural transmission processes. Overall, the results point toward close contact between individuals and hunter gatherer populations, and supports the recognition of a broad cultural unit to encapsulate Asian IUP assemblages. Considering other lines of evidence, the geographical and chronological distribution of Asian IUP lithic technology is consistent with a dispersal of Homo sapiens populations in Central and East Asia during the Marine Isotopic Stage 3, although the geographical origin of such movement is less clear.

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A demographic history of Late Pleistocene China

Cited by 29 publications

References 104 publications

Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world

Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world

A multi-proxy approach to exploring Homo sapiens’ arrival, environments and adaptations in Southeast Asia

The Initial Upper Paleolithic in Central and East Asia: Blade Technology, Cultural Transmission, and Implications for Human Dispersals

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