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Human dispersals out of Africa via the Levant

Published:2023-10-06 Issue:40 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Abbas Mahmoud¹^ORCID,Lai Zhongping¹^ORCID,Jansen John D.²^ORCID,Tu Hua¹^ORCID,Alqudah Mohammad³^ORCID,Xu Xiaolin¹^ORCID,Al-Saqarat Bety S.⁴,Al Hseinat Mu’ayyad⁴^ORCID,Ou Xianjiao⁵^ORCID,Petraglia Michael D.⁶⁷⁸^ORCID,Carling Paul A.⁹¹⁰¹¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Marine Sciences, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Disaster Prediction and Prevention, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China.

2. GFU Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.

3. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Yarmouk University, 211163 Irbid, Jordan.

4. School of Science, Geology Department, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

5. School of Geography and Tourism, Jiaying University, Meizhou 514015, China.

6. Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Australia.

7. School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

8. Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.

9. The State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection (SKLGP), Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan 610059, China.

10. Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.

11. Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK.

Abstract

Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa into Eurasia multiple times in the Middle and Late Pleistocene. The route, across northeastern Africa into the Levant, is a viable terrestrial corridor, as the present harsh southern Levant would probably have been savannahs and grasslands during the last interglaciation. Here, we document wetland sediments with luminescence ages falling in the last interglaciation in the southern Levant, showing protracted phases of moisture availability. Wetland sediments in Wadi Gharandal containing Levallois artifacts yielded an age of 84 ka. Our findings support the growing consensus for a well-watered Jordan Rift Valley that funneled migrants into western Asia and northern Arabia.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adi6838

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