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150,000-year palaeoclimate record from northern Ethiopia supports early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa

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Date
18/01/2018
Author
Lamb, Henry
Bates, C. Richard
Bryant, Charlotte
Davies, Sarah
Huws, Dei
Marshall, Michael
Roberts, Helen
Toland, Harry
Funder
NERC
NERC
Grant ID
NE/K012711/1
NE/D011604/1
Keywords
CC Archaeology
GE Environmental Sciences
3rd-NDAS
BDC
R2C
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Abstract
Climatic change is widely acknowledged to have played a role in the dispersal of modern humans out of Africa, but the timing is contentious. Genetic evidence links dispersal to climatic change ~60,000 years ago, despite increasing evidence for earlier modern human presence in Asia. We report a deep seismic and near-continuous core record of the last 150,000 years from Lake Tana, Ethiopia, close to early modern human fossil sites and to postulated dispersal routes. The record shows varied climate towards the end of the penultimate glacial, followed by an abrupt change to relatively stable moist climate during the last interglacial. These conditions could have favoured selection for behavioural versatility, population growth and range expansion, supporting models of early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa.
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Lamb , H , Bates , C R , Bryant , C , Davies , S , Huws , D , Marshall , M , Roberts , H & Toland , H 2018 , ' 150,000-year palaeoclimate record from northern Ethiopia supports early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 8 , 1077 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19601-w
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Scientific Reports
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19601-w
ISSN
2045-2322
Type
Journal article
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© The Author(s) 2018. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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This project was funded by grants from the UK Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC; grant nos NER/B/S/2002/00540 and NE/DO12996/1) and NERC Radiocarbon Facility support (NRCF010001 allocation number1201.1006).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12579

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