Permanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the early Holocene

Author:

Meyer M. C.1,Aldenderfer M. S.2,Wang Z.1,Hoffmann D. L.3,Dahl J. A.4,Degering D.5,Haas W. R.6,Schlütz F.7

Affiliation:

1. University of Innsbruck, Institute for Geology, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.

2. School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA.

3. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.

4. National Isotope Centre, GNS Science, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand.

5. ADD Ideas Albrecht and Detlev Degering, zum Erzengel Michael 19, D-01723 Mohorn, Germany.

6. Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.

7. Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research, D-26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

Abstract

The peopling of Tibet The date of the first permanent human occupation of the high Tibetan Plateau has been estimated at about 3600 years ago, when agriculture became established. Meyer et al. used several dating techniques to analyze sediments at a high-altitude site (4270 m) where human handprints and footprints have been found. Their analysis indicates occupation of the plateau 7400 years ago and possibly earlier. These dates are consistent with the genetic history of Tibetans and suggest that a permanent preagricultural peopling of the plateau was enabled by the wetter regional climate at that time. Science , this issue p. 64

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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