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DOI	10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109438
	Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa
	Roberts P.; Prendergast M.E.; Janzen A.; Shipton C.; Blinkhorn J.; Zech J.; Crowther A.; Sawchuk E.A.; Stewart M.; Ndiema E.; Petraglia M.; Boivin N.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0031-0182
卷号	537
英文摘要	The ecological adaptations that stimulated the dispersal and technological strategies of our species during the Late Pleistocene remain hotly disputed, with some influential theories focusing on grassland biomes or marine resources as key drivers behind the rapid expansion and material culture innovations of Homo sapiens within and beyond Africa. Here, we present novel chronologically resolved, zooarchaeological taxonomic and taphonomic analysis, and stable isotope analysis of human and faunal tooth enamel, from the site of Panga ya Saidi (c. 78–0.4 ka), Kenya. Zooarchaeological data provide rare insights into the fauna associated with, and utilized by, Late Pleistocene-Holocene human populations in tropical coastal eastern Africa. Combined zooarchaeological and faunal stable isotope data provide some of the only dated, ‘on-site’ archives of palaeoenvironments beyond the arid interior of eastern Africa for this time period, while stable isotope analysis of humans provides direct snapshots of the dietary reliance of foragers at the site. Results demonstrate that humans consistently utilized tropical forest and grassland biomes throughout the period of site occupation, through a transition from Middle Stone Age to Later Stone Age technological industries and the arrival of agriculture in the region. By contrast, while coastal resources were obtained for use in symbolic material culture, there is limited evidence for consumption of marine resources until the Holocene. We argue that the ecotonal or heterogeneous environments of coastal eastern Africa may have represented an important refugium for populations during the increasing climatic variability of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, and that tropical environments were one of a diverse series of ecosystems exploited by H. sapiens in Africa at the dawn of global migrations. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Eastern Africa; Homo sapiens; Palaeoenvironment; Stable isotope analysis; Tropical forest; Zooarchaeology
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptation; archaeology; dispersal; grassland; isotopic analysis; marine resource; Mesolithic; paleoecology; paleoenvironment; Pleistocene-Holocene boundary; stable isotope; taphonomy; tropical environment; tropical forest; Kenya; Homo sapiens
来源期刊	Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/150732
作者单位	Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, Jena, 07745, Germany; School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Saint Louis University, Avenida del Valle 34, Madrid, 28003, Spain; College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37921-5946, United States; Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia; Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom; Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony BrookNY 11794-4364, United States; Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 8, Jena, 07745, Germany; Department of Earth Sciences, Archaeology Section, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, 40658- 00100, Kenya; Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natu...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Roberts P.,Prendergast M.E.,Janzen A.,et al. Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa[J],2020,537.
APA	Roberts P..,Prendergast M.E..,Janzen A..,Shipton C..,Blinkhorn J..,...&Boivin N..(2020).Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,537.
MLA	Roberts P.,et al."Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa".Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 537(2020).