Continental Patterns in Stone Tools: A Technological and Biplot-Based Comparison of Early Late Pleistocene Assemblages from Northern and Southern Africa

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Wurz ◽  
P. Van Peer ◽  
N. le Roux ◽  
S. Gardner ◽  
H. J. Deacon
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Early Late

scholarly journals Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (20) ◽  
pp. 9820-9824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiu-Jie Wu ◽  
Shu-Wen Pei ◽  
Yan-Jun Cai ◽  
Hao-Wen Tong ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Third Molars ◽  
Human Morphology ◽  
Nasal Floor ◽  
Medial Pterygoid ◽  
Early Late

Middle to Late Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia has remained controversial regarding the extent of morphological continuity through archaic humans and to modern humans. Newly found ∼300,000-y-old human remains from Hualongdong (HLD), China, including a largely complete skull (HLD 6), share East Asian Middle Pleistocene (MPl) human traits of a low vault with a frontal keel (but no parietal sagittal keel or angular torus), a low and wide nasal aperture, a pronounced supraorbital torus (especially medially), a nonlevel nasal floor, and small or absent third molars. It lacks a malar incisure but has a large superior medial pterygoid tubercle. HLD 6 also exhibits a relatively flat superior face, a more vertical mandibular symphysis, a pronounced mental trigone, and simple occlusal morphology, foreshadowing modern human morphology. The HLD human fossils thus variably resemble other later MPl East Asian remains, but add to the overall variation in the sample. Their configurations, with those of other Middle and early Late Pleistocene East Asian remains, support archaic human regional continuity and provide a background to the subsequent archaic-to-modern human transition in the region.

Formation processes at the early Late Pleistocene archaic human site of Lingjing, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Li ◽  
Zhan-yang Li ◽  
Matt G. Lotter ◽  
Kathleen Kuman
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Early Late

scholarly journals Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 104 (42) ◽  
pp. 16422-16427 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Cohen ◽  
J. R. Stone ◽  
K. R. M. Beuning ◽  
L. E. Park ◽  
P. N. Reinthal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Ecological Consequences ◽  
Early Late

A Late Pleistocene wetland setting in the hyperarid Jurf ed Darawish region in central Jordan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Mischke ◽  
Zhongping Lai ◽  
Galina Faershtein ◽  
Naomi Porat ◽  
Paul Braun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Near East ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Osl Dating ◽  
Subsurface Water ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Central Jordan ◽  
Small Streams ◽  
Out Of Africa

<p>Current conditions in the southern Levant are hyperarid and local communities rely on fossil subsurface water resources. However, the Levantine Corridor provided a pathway for the migration of humans out of Africa and their spread in the Near East and beyond in the Pleistocene, but times of more favourable wetter periods are not well constrained yet. To improve our understanding of past climate and environmental conditions in the deserts of the Near East, two nearby sedimentary sections (9.8 and 16.5 m thick, respectively) from the Central Jordanian Plateau containing a layer of stone tools and production debris were investigated using micropalaeontological analysis and OSL dating. Recorded fossils are mostly ostracod valves of the genera Pseudocandona, Potamocypris and Ilyocypris. Additional remains are shells of aquatic and terrestrial gastropods and charophyte gyrogonites and stem encrustations. The organism remains and mostly silty sediments suggest that a wetland with small streams and ponds existed at the location of Jurf ed Darawish in the past. OSL dating of the sedimentary sequence revealed mostly Late Pleistocene ages of the Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 3. The sedimentary layer containing stone tools and production debris was formed ca. 60 ka ago. In contrast, the base of the section provided only minimum ages of ca. 150 ka. The accumulated data indicate that climate conditions supported human activities on the Central Jordanian Plateau in the middle part of the Late Pleistocene.</p>

On the edge of eastern and western culture zones in the early Late Pleistocene. Święte 9 – A new epigravettian site in the south-east of Poland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Łanczont ◽  
Marta Połtowicz-Bobak ◽  
Dariusz Bobak ◽  
Przemysław Mroczek ◽  
Adam Nowak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
The South ◽  
Early Late
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