En este artículo discutimos el hallazgo de una importante muestra de cerámica del estilo Topará excavada sistemáticamente en el sitio de Pozuelo, valle bajo de Chincha, Perú. Nuestro análisis ...ceramográfico permite identificar sus características tipológicas y decorativas. Con toda esta información ceramográfica y contextual explicamos la presencia de este estilo en el sitio de Pozuelo, su dispersión en el Valle de Chincha y, finalmente, ofrecemos algunas reflexiones sobre su aparición en la Costa Sur del Perú prehispánico.
Securely dated archaeological sites from key regions and periods are critical for understanding early modern human adaptive responses to past environmental change. Here, we report new radiocarbon ...dates of > 42,000 cal years BP for an intensive human occupation of Gorgora rockshelter in the Ethiopian Highlands. We also document the development of innovative technologies and symbolic behaviors starting around this time. The evidenced occupation and behavioral patterns coincide with the onset and persistence of a stable wet phase in the geographically proximate high-resolution core record of Lake Tana. Range expansion into montane habitats and the subsequent development of innovative technologies and behaviors are consistent with population dispersal waves within Africa and beyond during wetter phases ~ 60–40 thousand years ago (ka).
The Told and Untold Mo, Jiajing
South Asian studies (Society for South Asian Studies),
05/2023, Volume:
39, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Believed to be an eye-witnessed report by Xuanzang 玄奘 (c.602–664 CE), the Datang Xiyu ji has long been held up in the western scholarship as a handy guide for the historical geography of South Asia ...and a standard source for identifying archaeological sites since the pioneer archaeologist Alexander Cunningham (1814–1893). Strangely, over a century of using the Xiyu ji has generated little critical awareness among archaeologists who have too often taken the text for face values. Indeed, an examination of the text will demonstrate that not all the description from the text is firsthand, at least so for around one-fifth of the countries not visited by Xuanzang. Yet it does not mean that Xuanzang is to be blamed. The production of the Xiyu ji was more complex than that of a general travelling record, which associates the text to the genre of official geographical writing. It was brought into being in response to an expanding empire. The edited ‘itinerary’ and the incorporation of secondary sources thus pose outstanding questions for researchers who might assume that they were following the steps of the pilgrim and urge us to reconsider the current conception of and approach to this document.
The Eneolithic Botai culture of the Central Asian steppes provides the earliest archaeological evidence for horse husbandry, ~5500 years ago, but the exact nature of early horse domestication remains ...controversial. We generated 42 ancient-horse genomes, including 20 from Botai. Compared to 46 published ancient- and modern-horse genomes, our data indicate that Przewalski's horses are the feral descendants of horses herded at Botai and not truly wild horses. All domestic horses dated from ~4000 years ago to present only show ~2.7% of Botai-related ancestry. This indicates that a massive genomic turnover underpins the expansion of the horse stock that gave rise to modern domesticates, which coincides with large-scale human population expansions during the Early Bronze Age.
En el sitio arqueológico Laguna de Los Pampas, ubicado en el Campo de Dunas del Centro Pampeano, se han registrado ocho entierros humanos en dos sectores de la playa de la laguna. En este trabajo se ...analiza este registro mediante distintas líneas de evidencia. Se presentan los resultados alcanzados y se discuten las implicancias de cada uno de ellos para las interpretaciones sobre la dinámica de ocupación del área por parte de los grupos cazadores- recolectores durante el Holoceno. Los resultados indican una ocupación humana durante el Holoceno Temprano y Medio, con una señal más intensa para este último periodo; la modalidad inhumatoria registrada es primaria en todos los casos determinados. Por otro lado, la identificación de modificación tabular oblicua en un individuo del Holoceno Medio (~6000 años AP) constituye un dato novedoso, ya que sería el registro más temprano correspondiente a este tipo deformatorio craneal para la región pampeana. La evidencia analizada sugiere que Laguna de Los Pampas sería producto de la reocupación periódica del lugar a lo largo del tiempo (Holoceno Temprano y Medio), motivada posiblemente por la presencia de rasgos sobresalientes del paisaje, la laguna y los recursos que ella brindaba.
On the origin of modern humans Bae, Christopher J.; Douka, Katerina; Petraglia, Michael D.
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science),
12/2017, Volume:
358, Issue:
6368
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The traditional "out of Africa" model, which posits a dispersal of modern
across Eurasia as a single wave at ~60,000 years ago and the subsequent replacement of all indigenous populations, is in need ...of revision. Recent discoveries from archaeology, hominin paleontology, geochronology, genetics, and paleoenvironmental studies have contributed to a better understanding of the Late Pleistocene record in Asia. Important findings highlighted here include growing evidence for multiple dispersals predating 60,000 years ago in regions such as southern and eastern Asia. Modern humans moving into Asia met Neandertals, Denisovans, mid-Pleistocene
, and possibly
, with some degree of interbreeding occurring. These early human dispersals, which left at least some genetic traces in modern populations, indicate that later replacements were not wholesale.
Human evolutionary scholars have long supposed that the earliest stone tools were made by the genus Homo and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread ...of savannah grasslands. New fieldwork in West Turkana, Kenya, has identified evidence of much earlier hominin technological behaviour. We report the discovery of Lomekwi 3, a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site where in situ stone artefacts occur in spatiotemporal association with Pliocene hominin fossils in a wooded palaeoenvironment. The Lomekwi 3 knappers, with a developing understanding of stone's fracture properties, combined core reduction with battering activities. Given the implications of the Lomekwi 3 assemblage for models aiming to converge environmental change, hominin evolution and technological origins, we propose for it the name 'Lomekwian', which predates the Oldowan by 700,000 years and marks a new beginning to the known archaeological record.
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