The Early Human Occupation of East and Southeast Asia

Rabett, Ryan

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“…The paleoenvironmental record covering the time span of H. erectus in Southeast Asia (on Java 1.51 million years ago to 117,000-108,000 years ago, see Hyodo et al 2011;Rizal et al 2020) is poorly understood. However, there is growing evidence for occupation along lakeshores and in marshy areas within broader mosaic grassland and forest landscapes, particularly later in the record (Rabett 2017). Specifically, the Trinil and Sangiran H. erectus had access to near-coastal rivers, swamp forests, lagoons, lakes, and marshes with minor marine influences (Bettis et al 2009).…”

Section: Drifting and Voyaging Through Southeast Asiamentioning

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Pleistocene Water Crossings and Adaptive Flexibility Within the Homo Genus

Gaffney

2020

J Archaeol Res

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Pleistocene water crossings, long thought to be an innovation of Homo sapiens, may extend beyond our species to encompass Middle and Early Pleistocene Homo. However, it remains unclear how water crossings differed among hominin populations, the extent to which Homo sapiens are uniquely flexible in these adaptive behaviors, and how the tempo and scale of water crossings played out in different regions. I apply the adaptive flexibility hypothesis, derived from cognitive ecology, to model the global data and address these questions. Water-crossing behaviors appear to have emerged among different regional hominin populations in similar ecologies, initially representing nonstrategic range expansion. However, an increasing readiness to form connections with novel environments allowed some H. sapiens populations to eventually push water crossings to new extremes, moving out of sight of land, making return crossings to maintain social ties and build viable founder populations, and dramatically shifting subsistence and lithic provisioning strategies to meet the challenges of variable ecological settings.

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“…As Rabett (2017) points out, it could be this ecological diversity that led to the long survival of these hominins. I would add that it might have also encouraged adaptive flexibility in new environments.…”

Section: Drifting and Voyaging Through Southeast Asiamentioning

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Pleistocene Water Crossings and Adaptive Flexibility Within the Homo Genus

Gaffney

2020

J Archaeol Res

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The Early Human Occupation of East and Southeast Asia

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Pleistocene Water Crossings and Adaptive Flexibility Within the Homo Genus

Pleistocene Water Crossings and Adaptive Flexibility Within the Homo Genus

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